After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from (...)
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won a chaotic and thrilling Belgian Grand Prix to seize back the Formula One championship lead from Red Bull's Mark Webber Sunday.
Hamilton's victory, despite a near-miss with the barriers in the challenging conditions (...)
Formula One championship leader Mark Webber gave Red Bull their 12th pole position in 13 races this season at the Belgian Grand Prix Saturday.
The Australian, favored by a late flurry of rain that prevented rivals from matching his time in final (...)
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso splashed his way to the top of the timing screens Friday in a rain-soaked free practice for the Belgian Grand Prix.
The double world champion, chasing his team's fourth successive Spa success, was quickest in the morning (...)
Customs issues, like distribution of custom receipts, remain to be a stumbling bloc in the planned six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) customs union, officials said on Saturday.
The GCC finance ministers held Saturday the 84th meeting of (...)
Muhammad Anees (right), Shumila Arif (center) and her husband Mohammad Arif (left) arrive at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad Friday following their acquittal in a narcotics smuggling case in Saudi Arabia. The three were among five (...)
Kimi Raikkonen won the Belgian Grand Prix for Ferrari's first success of the Formula One season on Sunday after championship leader Jenson Button crashed on the opening lap.
Italian Giancarlo Fisichella finished second, just 0.9 of second behind (...)
Giancarlo Fisichella gave Force India an astonishing first pole position while Formula One championship leader Jenson Button qualified only 14th for the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
The Force India team has yet to score a point in 29 races while (...)
McLaren's world champion Lewis Hamilton was quickest Friday on his return to the Belgian Grand Prix circuit where he was stripped of victory last year.
The 24-year-old Briton, Formula One's youngest champion, lapped the fast and sweeping Spa layout (...)
Abu Dhabi's season-ending Grand Prix will be the first Formula One race to start in daylight and end at night, organizers said Friday.
“Yas Marina Circuit has been built from the outset to host day and night-time activities,” said Richard Cregan, (...)
Graduating soldiers from the Special Security Forces' anti-terror unit demonstrate their skills through various simulations in Riyadh on Sunday. Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, Deputy Minister of Interior for Security Affairs, on Saturday patronized the (...)
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal attends an Arab foreign ministers' meeting at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo, Thursday. The meeting discussed the risks of Judaizing Al-Quds, the report of independent international (...)
Saudi dancers on Tuesday perform during a cultural performance at the inauguration of a week-long Saudi cultural event in the Yemeni capital Sana'a. Dr. Abdul Aziz Khoja, Minister of Information and Culture, who arrived in Sana'a earlier in the day, (...)
Iran said on Monday reports that an Iranian official had questioned Bahrain's sovereignty had been misunderstood and misinterpreted.
According to media reports, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, (...)
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was stripped of victory in a thrilling Belgian Grand Prix after stewards decided he had gained an advantage by cutting a chicane during a last-gasp duel with Kimi Raikkonen.
Hamilton was given a 25-second time penalty by (...)
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was perfectly placed to extend his Formula One championship lead after seizing pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday.
The 23-year-old Briton will start Sunday's race with Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa, his (...)
A Saudi officer kisses the forehead of his father after a graduation ceremony at King Faisal military college in Riyadh on Saturday. (Above) Graduating officers take an oath on copies of Holy Qur'an during the ceremony. Prince Abdulrahman Bin Abdul (...)