RIYADH: The World Bank has ranked the Kingdom as the best place to do business in the entire Middle East and Arab world. The Kingdom is thus ahead of Bahrain (20th), the UAE (33rd) and Qatar (39th),... Full Story
JEDDAH: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) signed a memorandum of understanding with King Abdulaziz University (KAU) on Tuesday in order to promote nanotechnology in IDB member states, projecting KAU’s... Full Story
DUBAI: Dubai’s dream project metro became a reality when Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, flagged off the first metro train... Full Story
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s blueprint for what he has called “de facto Palestinian statehood” offers a new and important element to the quest for peace in the Middle... Full Story
TEHRAN: Iran handed a package of proposals to world powers on Wednesday, as it came under renewed Western pressure to swiftly engage in “meaningful” talks to resolve the dispute over its... Full Story
JERUSALEM: An Israeli human rights group said on Wednesday more than half of the Palestinians killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive were civilians, findings that dispute Israeli military statistics. The... Full Story
ISTANBUL: Record floods left at least 31 people dead and large parts of Istanbul under water on Wednesday as desperate motorists caught in flash floods clambered up trees to save themselves from drowning. Turkey’s... Full Story
IN announcing his intention to run next year for the presidency, Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, the only son of the Philippines’ first democratically elected head of state, Corazon Aquino,... Full Story
