Co-education gains unlikely nod from Saudi religious police chief
15 Dec 2009: JEDDAH - A hardline member of the Saudi religious police sparked anger among Saudi clerics recently after he eased his views on ikhtilat, the mixing and interaction of unmarried and non-blood-related men and women. The change of heart from Sheikh Ahmed alYemeni rebels attack border post in Jazan
05 Nov 2009: JAZAN: A Saudi border guard was killed and 11 others were injured when armed infiltrators from across the Yemeni border fired on Saudi border guards. The incident took place at Dukhan Mountain close to the Khald border post in Al-Khoba sector of JazanSaudi Arabia lifts two-year-old ban on cement product exports
08 Oct 2009: Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Commerce and Industry has lifted the two-year-old ban on exports of cement products. The ministry's decision allows manufacturers of various types of cement products, including cement blocks, hollow bricks and pipes, toSaudi looks to the future, opens coed university
23 Sep 2009: Saudi Arabia’s new $10 billion, state-of-the-art science and technology university welcomes the country’s first coed student body Wednesday in one of the king’s keystone attempts to power his country into the 21st century with renewable energy andNo Yemeni dead or hurt in Asir: Police
15 Sep 2009: JEDDAH: The Asir police has denied claims by the independent Akhbar Al-Youm Yemeni newspaper that 19 Yemeni nationals were killed or injured when Saudi police shot them. In a statement, the police said there was no truth to the newspaper’s claim that 19Prince Muhammad escapes assassination attempt
28 Aug 2009: JEDDAH: Prince Muhammad bin Naif, assistant interior minister for security affairs, escaped an assassination attempt on Thursday night when a wanted terrorist blew himself up inside the prince's house here. The minister escaped with minor injuries in theKing approves 4 new universities
25 Aug 2009: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved the establishment of four new universities in Dammam, Alkharj, Shaqra and Majmaa, Higher Education Minister Khaled Al-Anqari announced Monday. The minister thanked the king for his continuousSaudi Arabia arrests 44 suspected al-Qaida militants
20 Aug 2009: Saudi authorities have arrested 44 suspected militants who sought to recruit youths and finance their "deviant activities" through charitable donations, an Interior Ministry statement said Wednesday. The statement said ongoing investigations have revealedIndian finds Saudi father after 27 years
04 Sep 2009: ALKHOBAR: Twenty-eight-year-old Indian national Ahmed Fahhad Mohammad Al-Hajri’s story is stranger than fiction. It is a story that film directors in India would die for. It is straight out of Bollywood. Born to a Saudi father and an Indian mother inModerate earthquake rattles Al-Ais region
19 May 2009: MADINAH/YANBU: Hundreds of people were evacuated from Al-Ais area in the Madinah province after an earthquake measuring 4.68 on the Richter scale shook the region on Sunday night. Eight hundred people, including families, were evacuated from the villagesRiyadh to host GCC central bank
06 May 2009: RIYADH: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders yesterday chose the Saudi capital to host the group’s first regional central bank, a key step toward a push for greater economic integration in the region. GCC Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Al-Attiyah saidEmergency surgery saves Somali twin
30 Mar 2009: RIYADH: A team of doctors headed by Health Minister Abdullah Al-Rabeeah saved the life of one Somali conjoined twin born on Thursday. In response to an appeal made by Fartoon Sheikh, mother of the Somali twins, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques KingMakkah-Madinah railway project contract signed
05 Mar 2009: RIYADH: The Kingdom has signed an SR6.79 billion agreement with Al-Rajhi Alliance to implement the first phase of the Haramain Railway project that will link the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah with Jeddah by rail. Public Investment Fund Chairman andDifferences with Syria are matter of past: Saud
27 Feb 2009: PARIS: Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said differences with Syria are a matter of the past here yesterday. He made the statement at a joint press conference with his French counter part Bernard Kouchner here. Quoting Custodian of the Two HolySaudi's first female minister
16 Feb 2009: Norah al-Fayez became the first woman to crack the glass ceiling in Saudi Arabia as the first-ever woman appointed to a ministerial position as part of the king's most dramatic move yet to modernize the political system and institute promised reforms byslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
