By Caryle Murphy KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia -- Within a week, two events on the manicured corniche of this seaside town set tongues wagging and heads sha...
The National Newspaper | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
In a bustling harbour just north of Jeddah one recent morning, a white 27-metre diving yacht was nosing its way slowly toward the open Red Sea. It was...
Edgar M. Bronfman | Posted 11.22.2009 | World
After decades of using the plight of the Palestinians as a useful stick with which to beat the West and as an excuse for their own domestic illegitimacies, Arab leaders finally need to be held to account.
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Authorities in Saudi Arabia have shut down all local operations of a Lebanese TV station that broadcast an interview with...
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Many in this ultra-conservative kingdom, where husbands and wives rarely even kiss in public, have been scandalized by a ...
The Independent | Posted 08.20.2009 | World
By Robert Verkaik | The Independent A Saudi Arabian princess who had an illegitimate child with a British man has secretly been granted asylum in thi...
cnn.com | Mohammed Jamjoom and Tricia Escobedo | Posted 08.10.2009 | World
(CNN) -- Wajeha al-Huwaider picked up her passport, got in a taxi, and headed from her home in eastern Saudi Arabia to the nearby island kingdom of Ba...
AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The catchy slogan, "Kicking the habit is on you, and marriage is on us," is meant to entice young grooms to give up smoki...
New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
WASHINGTON -- Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and ...
Diane Francis | Posted 08.01.2008 | Green
John McCain foolishly credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of the offshore drill ban. What's he going to do when prices nudge or jump upwards again?
Global Post | Posted 10.29.2009 | World