A desert in the Middle East was thought to be a vast stretch of sand void of life - until the discovery of a 5,000-year-old ...

The sand gutters from the crest of dunes; all around, it lifts and fills the air. If there were any discernible landmarks in this portion of Rub al Khali they are lost in the haze. Yet Ms Al Mazrouei ...

The total distance is estimated at 1,266km. Pilgrims from the Sultanate of Oman use the Rub' al Khali road to reach Mecca. On Saudi Arabia’s northern border, pilgrims from Jordan also follow two ...

It passes through the Rub' al Khali, also known as the "Empty Quarter", a vast, otherworldly desert that stretches across much of the Arabian Peninsula. There are no bends, no turns - just ...

In 2024, a team of researchers from Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa University developed an A.I. algorithm that could survey the Rub al-Khali, a 250,000 square mile dessert on the Arabian Peninsula ...

Spanning a staggering 256 kilometres (159 miles) without a single bend, this arrow-like ribbon of highway cuts across the Rub’ al Khali, or the “Empty Quarter", the largest contiguous sand desert in ...

Haboobs are common in arid regions like Saudi Arabia, where the landscape is dominated by vast deserts such as the Rub’ al Khali and An-Nafud. These storms often occur during the spring and ...

Launched on October 10, 2009, Muscat Daily is now the largest selling broadsheet newspaper in the Sultanate of Oman with 33,500 daily copies and 28,000 subscribers.. Muscat Daily provides unrivalled ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman. All nine justices on the court, in a ruling issued ...

May 1, 2025; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; Former Alabama football coach Nick Saban introduces President Donald Trump. Trump delivered a special commencement address to University of Alabama graduates at ...

Signing up to a 13-day camel trek, covering 580 kilometres of vast desert from Rub’Al Khali towards Dubai, meant the prospect of retracing ancient Bedouin routes on camelback for up to eight hours ...