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Culture Minister’s Daughter Arrested in Connection with Qatar’s Fire

Qatar's Culture Minister's daughter is among five people who have been arrested in connection with the fire that swept through Doha's elite Villaggio Mall...

The Rock Stadium Rises from the Desert in Sharp Planes

If you've ever had the experience of driving through a vast, mostly uncluttered landscape that is suddenly interrupted by a large, ill-fitting manmade structure,...

Bauhaus Design Goes Underground in Tel Aviv

Galmidi Yitzhar and the industrial designer Yaksein Eliran won first place in a design competition for a new underground train station in one of...

Qatar Mall Owner Faces Arrest for Deadly Fire

Authorities have issued arrest orders following Monday's fire that engulfed Doha's Villaggio Mall, killing 19 people. The owner of the mall and a handful...

New Toilet Business 2theloo Flourishes in Tel Aviv

Will there be less public peeing on the streets now there's a high tech public toilet in Tel Aviv? Haaretz reporter Roy Arad recently wrote...

Qatar Fire: Expatriates Furious Over Officials’ Lackadaisical Attitude

Ten minutes after a fire broke out in Doha's Villaggio Mall yesterday, an expatriate and Doha News reader Paula Rodrigues Duarte claimed that officials failed...

Saudi Prince Sues the City of Los Angeles Over Palatial Building

Saudi Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah - the son of King Abdullah and deputy Foreign Minister - has sued the city of Los Angeles....

Morocco’s Atlas Kasbah Eco-Lodge is 80% Solar-Powered

It may look like a castle, but this beautiful red-earth building is actually an 11-roomed hotel that receives 80% of its energy from the...

Turkey’s Early Hydroelectric Dams Featured in Exhibit

The first hydroelectric dam built in Ankara, Turkey's capital city, the Çubuk Dam was promoted as "Ankara's Bosphorus". A new exhibit at Istanbul's avant-garde SALT...

Iraqi Mud Architect Talks Sustainability and Corruption in the Middle East (Exclusive Interview)

Award-winning architect Salma Samar Damluji speaks to GreenProphet about her mud architecture work in Yemen and why Dubai's property development mentality is ruining the...

Egyptian Brothers Design a Clever Separator for Gulf Recyclables

Egyptian brothers Mostafa and Mohamed Nassar have designed a clever two-meter tall waste separator that aims to make recycling in Abu Dhabi and the other...

Dubai’s Underwater Hotel by Deep Ocean Technology (PICS)

When it first emerged that plans for an underwater hotel in Dubai had been revived, Arwa wrote "Dubai has more gimmicks and tacky accolades...

Save the Cave Dwellers of Cappadocia (PHOTOS)

Nothing is more earth-friendly than carving out an existence in the belly of a cave. Yet, despite its 1985 UNESCO cultural and natural World...

Investing in Ramallah’s Children Key to Sustainability

Ramallah is leading the way as the heart of Palestine's environmental awakening. City-dwellers are planting trees, creating and restoring open, natural community spaces and reviving...

Simple Wave House is a Minimalist Summer Home for Turkey

Turkish designer Gunes Peksen doesn't say much about this concept for a minimalist summer retreat, but it is definitely reminiscent of the Prefab LoftCube...

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The Space Orchestra, and the search for extraterrestrial life, to eclipse celebration

The event will livestream eclipse views from Iceland and northern Spain, where the eclipse will be total, while the 35-member International Space Orchestra, made up of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers—performs a new orchestral interpretation of Voyager by PJ Harvey.

Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

The Hidden Components Powering the Renewable Energy Revolution

A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

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The Space Orchestra, and the search for extraterrestrial life, to eclipse celebration

The event will livestream eclipse views from Iceland and northern Spain, where the eclipse will be total, while the 35-member International Space Orchestra, made up of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers—performs a new orchestral interpretation of Voyager by PJ Harvey.

Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

The Hidden Components Powering the Renewable Energy Revolution

A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

SpaceX’s 2026 IPO didn’t just mint billionaires—it revealed the many forms of conviction behind one of the most doubted bets in venture history.

From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.

Is the manosphere selling a testosterone crisis? Pentagon’s new “Low T” policy sparks debate

The Pentagon's decision to introduce annual testosterone testing for U.S. military personnel over 30 has sparked debate among doctors and public health experts. Researchers warn that social media influencers are turning normal signs of ageing into a "Low T" crisis, encouraging unnecessary hormone testing and supplementation while blurring the line between evidence-based medicine and marketing.
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