five million riyals.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques laid the foundation stone for a number of the university projects electronically, including educational, service and technological projects in various regions of the Kingdom amounting to (...)
nine Saudi women who have been employed as conductors on the Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University monorail, recently completed a 40-day training course that saw them go to Italy, Denmark and the United Kingdom. The women conductors will be in (...)
two people suspected of involvement in a multi-billion dollar banking fraud with alleged links to the government of Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have gone on trial in Tehran, the Iranian state news agency reported.
The record (...)
four Muslim drivers for Hertz claimed they were suspended for praying during work hours, but the company contended they were reprimanded for abusing break times.
Backed by their union, the drivers protested Wednesday outside the Hertz counter at (...)
two blackbuck antelopes have died and two rhinos are in critical condition after drinking sewage water that flowed into their enclosures at New Delhi's main zoo, a news report said Thursday.
The antelopes died over the past week after a sewage pipe (...)
nine distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFW) from Bahrain were repatriated this week, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday.
The workers arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Monday morning, the DFA said in an article (...)
eight years and four months seems like an awfully long time to wait for justice, but that is exactly what happened to the families of the 14 unarmed demonstrators shot and killed by British troops in Northern Ireland in 1972 in what came to be known (...)
eight of the “Morong 43” detainees were finally taken from a military camp in Rizal province to a facility at the Philippines National Police (PNP) headquarters at Camp Crame in Quezon City Friday morning.
But their much-awaited transfer was (...)
Arak in the province of Madina are soon to move into new homes following their completion with their expenses borne by Crown Prince Sultan.
Thirty homes costing a total of SR5.3 million will receive the first intake of families, followed by a (...)
bikes” and ten ambulances will be on hand at the Haram Central Zone in Makkah to attend to the medical needs of pilgrims.
Head of the Red Crescent in Makkah Bandar Baraheem said that the doctor-driven motorcycles carried a full supply of medical (...)
two music acts appeared during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the (...)
five buildings in Old Jeddah listed as of first and second class historic importance are in danger of collapse according to city authorities, and recurring fires have destroyed a number of other old structures according to residents of the area, 99 (...)
year-old lady got the better of a man who forced his way into her home when she managed to tie him up until authorities came to her aid. The woman answered her door to an Arab expatriate who claimed he had come to fix her water tank, but when the (...)
year-old handicapped man has been rescued after authorities searched for twenty hours to find him and his vehicle which had got stuck on a rock in the desert. Ajal Al-Buqami, Al-Watan newspaper reports, had gone out for a desert drive in the (...)
six malaria cases have been reported in the first three months of the year, according to a report by the Information Center of the Ministry of Health.
There were 61 malaria cases in 2008 across the Kingdom, the report showed.
The report indicated (...)
six of the Kingdom's judges are participating today in the third scholarly symposium on human trafficking organized by the Ministry of Justice and the Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS) at the university campus here. The last two (...)
five South Asian expatriates were arrested here on Friday for allegedly brewing liquor in a remote farm. The arrests followed a raid by the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice at an apartment in Al-Arousa Center here.
Sheikh (...)
three members of elite Greyhound Force of Andhra Pradesh have gone missing after a boat bringing them back from Orissa back to Sileru in Visakhapatnam came under attack by the CPI Maoist rebels and capsized on Sunday morning.
Sandeep Shandalya, the (...)