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Saudi Arabia's banks netted about SR25.4 billion (Dh25.1bn) in profits in the first 10 months of 2009 and analysts believe the annual income could be equivalent to the earnings achieved in 2008. The combined net profits of the kingdom's 12...

The governmental Human Rights Commission (HRC) intervened on two occasions to force men to send their children to school. Both cases took place in the Eastern Province and involved divorces earlier this year with the fathers winning custody. The first...

The normal situation when it comes to labor is that Saudis hire foreigners. But in an unusual twist at the fruit market in Riyadh�s southern Aziziyah district, a Saudi laborer works for a Bangladeshi man who operates a fruit stall....

Jeddah�s Al-Ruwais district is probably best known elsewhere because it was the location of the December 2004 attacks on the US Consulate. Some may know it as the home to the city�s largest graveyard that gives the district its name....

Twenty Malaysian pilgrims have died during the haj season, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Maj-Gen (Rtd) Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom. He said the deceased comprised 16 men and four women, aged 50 and above. Most of the deaths...

is telling an interfaith audience that the prophet Muhammad traces his lineage to Abraham, the biblical patriarch. Turk explains to the crowd of mostly Christians and Jews that Muslims also revere Jesus and Moses as prophets, and that Islam cherishes...

A level of $200 a barrel was predicted as recently as last year by the investment bank Goldman Sachs and the price did hit nearly $150 just 18 months ago, at the height of the global trade boom. The sub-prime...

Salam Park, the newest park in Riyadh, attracted thousands of visitors on the first day of Eid Al-Adha on Friday. Centrally located near the Masmak Fort is destined to be a hit with city residents. Visitors are particularly attracted to...

With the waters beginning to dry up following Wednesday�s downpour, medical professionals are warning of health dangers from bacterial contaminates to disease-bearing mosquitoes that could be present in stagnant rainwater around Jeddah streets. �Children thinking they have found a new...