Oman News

Washington: US doctors announced on Thursday they had successfully performed a double lung transplant on a patient with terminal lung cancer, giving new hope to others who also have advanced...

Muscat: The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Sultanate of Oman at the end of December 2021 increased by 16.1 per cent to reach RO 33.016 billion compared to RO...

Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al Busaidy, Foreign Minister, met Venkaiah Naidu, Vice-President of India, in New Delhi on Thursday. The meeting comes within the framework of Sayyid Badr’s visit to...

The Gulf Ceramics Carnival kicked off at Jabreen Castle on Thursday. The opening ceremony of the fair, which will run till March 27, was held under the auspices of Eng...

"Oman Banks Association (OBA) hosted Mr. Hamood Sangour Al Zadjali, the previous Executive President of the Central Bank of Oman on 23rd March 2022 at OBA Office located at Madinat...

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's government on Thursday declared "an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately", saying it hoped to help hasten delivery of emergency aid into the Tigray region, where hundreds of...

Oman registered their third victory in the AFC Asian Qualifiers – Road to Qatar after defeating Vietnam 1-0 in the penultimate match of group B on Thursday at the My...

Tokyo: Australian Nick Kyrgios sealed a comfortable victory over Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in the first round of the Miami Open on Wednesday, while former world number one Naomi Osaka defeated...

MIAMI: Jordan Poole scored 30 points as the short-handed Golden State Warriors halted their losing streak in emphatic fashion with a 118-104 defeat of the Eastern Conference-leading Miami Heat on...

LOS ANGELES: World number one Jon Rahm got off to a smooth start at the WGC Dell Technologies Match Play tournament in Texas on Wednesday, romping to a convincing victory...

SEOUL: North Korea fired what could be its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, Tokyo and Seoul said, a dramatic return to long-range testing that sparked outrage from neighbours and...

MINUWANGODA: Thusitha Hadaragama stood at a corner store near his home in Sri Lanka's Minuwangoda town this week and surveyed groceries to buy for his family of five, including two...

BANGKOK: A Vietnamese man who tried to row 2,000 kilometres from Thailand to India to see his wife was in custody on Thursday after being rescued off the Thai coast,...

MOSCOW/BERLIN: Russia said that it had taken control of the eastern Ukrainian town of Izyum while the Ukrainian navy said it had destroyed a Russian Black Sea vessel, as the...

MOSCOW: Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday accused Nato member Poland, which neighbours Ukraine, of escalating the situation in eastern Europe after it expelled 45 Russian diplomats over alleged espionage."Warsaw has...

Lahore: Pakistan openers Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique made a solid start on Thursday to set up a thrilling final day in the deciding third test in Lahore, keeping the hosts...

New Delhi: Mahendra Singh Dhoni has stepped down as captain of Indian Premier League holders Chennai Super Kings two days before the new season and handed the leadership to Ravindra...

Muscat: The 1st Design Group FIDE International Chess Tournament got off to a flying start with players from Pakistan, Philippines, Yemen, Oman, India and Egypt participating at the Panaroma Mall.The...

Christchurch, New Zealand: Defending champions England continued their Women's Cricket World Cup resurgence with an emphatic nine-wicket win over Pakistan on Thursday to stand on the brink of the semifinals.England...

SYDNEY: Substitute Kaoru Mitoma scored twice in the dying minutes as Japan beat Australia 2-0 on Thursday to book their place at a seventh straight World Cup and in doing...