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The Jeddah flash flooding of Nov. 25 was caused not because of heavy rains alone but because of a lack of a drainage system in the city and a 30-year-old controversy involving then Mayor Muhammad Farisy, according to Yahya Hamza...

Will it rain in Jeddah? You may be aware of reports in the media about Musk Lake (Dam) in the Al-Samir 3 district of Jeddah. Saudi Civil Defence asked residents living close to the Dam to leave as a precautionary...

Like pilgrims to Mecca, art students bellying up to free hors d’oeuvres, or maybe both, thousands of contemporary art fans swarm Miami Beach for four days in early December...Art Basel Miami Beach, headquartered at the Miami Beach Convention Center, has...

Jeddah flood deaths shame Saudi royals For lack of a sewage system, many citizens in one of the world's richest countries died. The Al Saud family's misrule is to blame Hundreds have died in the Jeddah floods. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images...

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah visited Jazan province on Wednesday to address the troops and tour the area of the border where fighting against infiltrators has taken place in recent weeks, the Saudi Press Agency reported. �The...

Wipro Arabia, formed in 2007 through a joint venture with the Dar Al Riyadh Group -- providing IT solutions and services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In an interview, Girish S Paranjpe , Wipro, joint chief executive officer (IT...

Jamila Sharahili and her five children fled their home after Saudi officials came to her village near the Yemeni border, urging her to escape from a war she knows little about. "I couldn't sleep because of the shelling," said the...

Survivors of flash floods in Saudi Arabia, which killed more than 100 people last week, will receive funding from local authorities. Officials in Jeddah will pay families devastated by last Wednesday’s floods 2,400 riyals (US$640) a week, as well as...

The annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage to Mecca wound up on Sunday without the feared mass outbreak of swine flu, Saudi authorities said, reporting a total of five deaths and 73 proven cases. Five pilgrims died from the A(H1N1) flu virus...