The stupa is home to Japanese, Korean, Thai and myriad Chinese restaurants. There’s bubble tea, of course, and pizza and ...

As the sun sets and darkness descends, a faint chill settles over Thimphu. Amid the bustle of the bus terminal, soft chants ...

Buddha Chitta mala (also referred to as Bodhichitta mala) is a type of prayer bead necklace revered in Tibetan Buddhism. Chinese demand for the beads has triggered an explosion in the industry in ...

Justin Bieber is shutting down his mother's prayer request. Pattie Mallette posted photos of Bieber to social media last month, along with a lengthy caption of a prayer asking for healing. However, ...

On Thursday morning, grief-stricken family, friends and community members gathered at a mosque in Brossard, Que., to pray and honour the memory of a 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed by ...

It’s just after Asr prayer on a Friday afternoon, and Riyadh’s Souk Al Zal is in full swing — a circus of bric-a-brac, rogue electronics and sandalwood smoke. To one side, a circle of men in white ...

Dubai Police are urging residents to report any suspicious activities as they ramp up efforts against organized begging, which has seen a significant increase. This initiative follows the recent ...

Dubai Police arrested 41 individuals of Arab nationality who carried out organised begging activities. They had entered the UAE on visit visas and were residing in a hotel they used as their base.

FIVE recent episodes of jequirity-bean ingestion in the Boston area have prompted the writing of this report. The jequirity bean (botanical name, Abrus precatorius) is variously known as the rosary ...

In the misty hills of Meghalaya, researchers have uncovered new populations of Elaeocarpus prunifolius 1, a rare relative of the prayer bead tree. The discovery, guided by machine-learning models, ...

Back in 2023, following the events on Oct. 7 that reignited a decades-old conflict in Gaza, Phoenix artist Joan Baron started a project she calls “Tiny Prayer Space.” It’s a participatory exhibition.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized illicit consignments of cocaine, tramadol, loud, molly and others concealed in prayer beads, packs of board games, female cloths meant for ...