A Saudi official perfumes the Black Stone set into the corner of the Holy Kaaba in the Grand Mosque. Supplied Cairo: Saudi authorities have urged pilgrims not to stand for too long next to a ...

From drifting through Omani fjords to dune bashing in Dubai, a week cruising the Arabian Gulf is full of contrasts - topped ...

For the past decade, the “Ghost of Reem Island,” as she was referred to in the press, has haunted me.

The Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’s black-and-white film follows a colonial official ... we earn an affiliate commission. In “Grand Tour,” a lush, melancholy story of yearning, a man ...

Meanwhile the pearly-white Shatti Al Qurum district ... The massive dome of the Grand Mosque, and the city’s brilliant whites and blues and glittering golden crescents, blinked at me as ...

With 82 white marble domes, the world's largest hand-knotted carpet, and chandeliers dripping in Swarovski crystals, the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is a visual masterpiece. It can hold ...

But in CAR, where it is led by Prigozhin’s former right-hand man, Dmitri Sytyi, it is still known as Wagner – and its forces ...

Constructed between 1996 and 2007 at the request of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder and first president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is by far the most ...

The couple are enjoying London date-nights, watching the football and taking mini-breaks in the English countryside ...

Majorca has more than 130,000 Irish visitors every year - and it's easy to see why. It has that laidback island life that makes us feel right at home.