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A primary school teacher died while she was addressing students on the occasion of Saudi Arabia’s national day, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The teacher was “hailing the bravery” of Saudi soldiers at the border […]

Saudi customs inspectors on King Fahd Causeway linking the kingdom with nearby Bahrain arrested a driver trying to smuggle SR140,000 (Dh140,000). Newspapers said the inspectors searching the passenger’s car found the money wrapped in plastic […]

A Saudi government hospital was forced to cram bodies together in its morgue after some of its parts suffered from a power fault and more bodies were received from a deadly road accident, a newspaper […]

Saudi authorities on Wednesday executed a local man after he was convicted of killing his wife by stabbing her while sleeping. The Interior Ministry said Hassan Falouk was beheaded in Riyadh after he was sentenced […]

A Saudi court sided with a local wife seeking to split from her drug addict husband and agreed to divorce her despite the man’s objection. The woman, in her 20, told court that her husband […]

Simon Collis has converted to Islam Britain’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia Simon Collis has converted to Islam to become the first UK senior diplomat in the Gulf Kingdom to perform Haj (pilgrimage). Ajel newspaper published […]

Three children were charred to death in a fire that gutted their house in Saudi Arabia and officials said the kids had caused the blaze. A civil defence spokesman, quoted by Ajel newspaper, said the […]

Reflect goodness and benevolence Saudi newspapers have published pictures which they describe as ‘touching’, saying they reflected goodness and benevolence during Haj (pilgrimage) in Makkah. One picture carried by Sada newspaper showed a policeman giving […]

A sheep fleeing his owner to avert being slaughtered during Eid Al Adha (feast of sacrifice) was knocked over by a car on the road in an Arab country. A YouTube film showed the owner […]