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Saturday 19/November/2016 15:20 PM

Long live Pakistan-Oman friendship!

November18 is celebrated as National Day to commemorate the new chapter of growth and prosperity of the Omani Nation; a landmark achievement under the...

Saturday 19/November/2016 15:05 PM

Deciphering the Fed's reaction to Trump

Nobody is really sure what Donald Trump will want from the Federal Reserve during his presidency: Will he try to make it adopt the “hard money” views of...

Saturday 19/November/2016 14:50 PM

The many faces of malnutrition

If you happen to be sitting with two other people right now, chances are one of you is malnourished. And you might not even know it. Yes, that’s right:...

Saturday 19/November/2016 14:32 PM

Globalization’s last gasp

Does Donald Trump’s election as United States president mean that globalization is dead, or are reports of the process’ demise greatly exaggerated? If...

Saturday 19/November/2016 14:17 PM

Mother nature vs. climate change

Wetlands, forests, and oceans absorb and store carbon, which makes them a vital asset for countries pursuing the Paris climate agreement’s targets for...

Wednesday 16/November/2016 21:59 PM

Fake news Facebook

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Wednesday 16/November/2016 14:51 PM

Antibiotics that work

From the discovery of penicillin in 1928 to the introduction of the last of the main groups of antibiotics in the 1960s, humanity’s capacity to fight...

Wednesday 16/November/2016 14:25 PM

Donald Trump’s brave new world

“What we love will ruin us,” predicted Aldous Huxley in 1932. In Brave New World, he described a human race that, by 2540, has been destroyed by...

Wednesday 16/November/2016 13:59 PM

The myth of the women’s vote

Among the clichés that deserve to be thrown out after the recent presidential election in the United States is the idea of a “women’s vote.” It may...