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The 88th Academy Awards got underway with host Chris Rock launching the show, after Hollywood's finest walked up a (...)
Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical Co. have agreed to go ahead with a $7 billion expansion of the Rabigh II petrochemical project in the Kingdom, the Japanese firm said Friday.
The project, which is due to start operations in early 2016, is a key (...)
The Australian singer has been presented with an honorary Doctor of Health Science award from Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford.
The singer, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, has received an honorary doctorate for her work raising (...)
Whether there are big changes afoot regarding the Palestine issue is yet to be seen, but there appears to be little doubt that pressure from the Obama Administration is having an effect on Israel's current Netanyahu administration. A day before (...)
South dialogue on a wide range of developmental issues", he said while addressing the third preparatory session of IRENA here in Abu Dhabi.
He said that today's meeting, just 9 days short of the first anniversary of Irena's official (...)
Swine flu vaccines are expected to arrive in the Kingdom within two weeks, a Ministry of Health spokesman has said.
“The Kingdom has reserved millions of vaccines from the companies producing them, and we expect them to arrive at Saudi hospitals (...)
“Titanic.” “Lord of the Rings.” “Aliens.” “King Kong.” “The Terminator.” The men behind those movies, James Cameron and Peter Jackson, are among modern film's special-effects kings, advancing technology in computer-generated imagery, motion-capture (...)
Theron, 33, won an Academy Award for her role in the 2003 movie “Monster,” in which she played serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who came from a background of violence and abuse and was executed in Florida in 2002. In the 2005 film, “North Country” she (...)
The body consists of billions of cells, from pumping heart muscle cells and insulin-producing beta cells to macrophages that destroy unwelcome bacteria. The more researchers know about a cell type, how it develops and functions, the greater the (...)
long global financial market upheaval have hit hardest in the countries that had binged on easy credit -- first and foremost the United States, but also Britain and Spain.
Thanks to steep food and energy prices that are shrinking consumer (...)
making process at the meetings of the Executive Council.
Addressing IMO's General Assembly, Dr al-Ouhali reiterated the keenness of the Kingdom on enhancing cooperation with the other countries of the world for enhancing the pillars of global (...)
handed.
"No pipeline, no access to reserves, no return on the $6 billion investment -- the Chinese have signed only face-saving things and are just shaking hands and going home," Steven O'Sullivan, head of research at Moscow investment bank United (...)
22 percent but reduce sugar cane margins by 50-55 percent.
On the economic data front, U.S. weekly jobless claims are due at 1230 GMT while U.S. data on new home sales for May, due at 1400 GMT, is seen coming just off April's record high.
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added products.
Also on the downside, shares in food retailer J Sainsbury sagged slightly, unwinding a late gain on Wednesday when persistent talk of a merger with French rival Carrefour boosted the shares, dealers said.
Britain's third-largest (...)
added products.
Also on the downside, shares in food retailer J Sainsbury sagged slightly, unwinding a late gain on Wednesday when persistent talk of a merger with French rival Carrefour boosted the shares, dealers said.
Britain's third-largest (...)
oil stocks is now seen as limited.
"Oil doesn't have the same effect as it did earlier in the year in Europe. Unless it shoots through $58 a barrel it is not going to have the same impact," said Bill O'Neill, strategist at JP Morgan Fleming Asset (...)
busting output to avoid a winter stockbuild. The group has projected a big winter inventory build if it keeps pumping at current rates.
Cartel earnings have also been hit by the weaker dollar, which has fallen to a succession of life lows versus (...)
Israeli conflict on Gulf security can not be overstressed. Any claims to the contrary derive merely from wishful thinking. An effective return to the peace process is an absolute necessity for any successful framework for Gulf security. While we (...)
device, for example, could precisely target cancer cells without affecting healthy cells -- the way chemotherapy and radiation do now. Drugs based on monoclonal antibodies -- engineered immune system proteins -- do this but the science could be (...)
1423 H. was approved by the Cabinet.
The Council of Ministers approved the appointment of Abdullah bin Mohammed Alribai'an as Director General of administration at the Presidency
of the General Intelligence and Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz bin Hasan (...)