The literal meaning of Kiswah is cloak. It is a black cloth with intricately embroidered cloth, which covers the Kaaba. The ...

The Haj is one of the world's largest religious gatherings and the major annual event in Saudi Arabia. It is regarded as one ...

Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) The National Weather Service issued a flood watch effective from 4 p.m. Sunday to 4 p.m. Monday for areas in or near burn scars created by the Palisades Fire ...

At least 17 people have died, and eight remain missing, after torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides across Indonesia's Java island. Flash floods and landslides during Indonesia's ...

In November a landslide and flash floods triggered by heavy downpours hit Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, leaving 20 dead and two missing. A landslide in the region also hit a tourist bus ...

Ka'Niyah Baker, 13, was found dead after a fire in Capital Heights, South Carolina, police said. Columbia Police Department Two teenage girls have been charged in the “heinous” murder of a ...

Being an ancient religion Hinduism now is plagued with many wrong and false ideas about it These probably arose over time ...

Among the highlights of the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025, which opens at the Western Hajj Terminal of King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah on Saturday (January 25) will be the Kiswah of the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo released by Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), rescuers carry the body ...

By entering into a shady deal with Solicitor General Muchende without any rational explanation of how the public interest was advanced through it, Kaaba lost, in my opinion, the right to be taken ...

With much of the country in the grip of devastating bushfires, it's hard to believe that only nine years ago much of Queensland was battling a flood crisis. Starting in November 2010, 97 communities ...

The Bureau's flood forecasting and warning service uses rainfall and streamflow observations, numerical weather predictions and hydrologic models to forecast and warn for possible flood events across ...