On the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan, the UAE president's charity will bear the travel costs of 200 prisoners who have completed their terms and are to be deported but don't have the money to return...

Spot fixer Majeed is said to have insisted on walking around the room to check there was nobody else there when was close to accepting the deal offered by the News of The World (NOTW) team masquerading as representatives of a Middle East business consortium seeking to sign Pakistan...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faces a crucial test with the proposed resumption of Middle East peace...

To improve communication between the government and the public, the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) has launched a new service for iPhone and iPad users that will enable them view government information in Arabic and...

Egypt will host the next segment of the direct round of Middle East peace talks Sep 14, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Sunday, confirming earlier...

The Palestinian leadership has chastised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for criticising the renewed Middle East direct peace talks, the Maan news agency reported...

During his conversation with a News of The World (NOTW) team that was masquerading as a business conglomerate from the Middle East seeking to hire Pakistan's cricketers for a tournament on lucrative terms, millionaire-cum match fixer Mazhar Majeed revealed that Pakistan one-day captain Shahid Afridi was one man that needed to be kept out because he was a difficult customer to...

Pop singer Christina Aguilera, who has been married to music exec Jordan Bratman for nearly five years, says their relationship hasn't changed much since they first began dating in...

Dana Gas, the UAE-based oil and gas company, said on Sunday it made a new gas discovery in Egypt's Nile Delta, and gas production from its Sharabas and Faraskur fields, also in Egypt, started in...

It was just past 4 the other morning when Mohammad Boota pulled his Lincoln Town Car into a service station on an industrial stretch in Long Island City, Queens, and bounded out — a typhoon of...

AN appeal has gone out to help the family of an Indian man who has been lying in a coma at Bahrain's Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) for a month. Aanikunyil Hameed, 46, was admitted to the SMC on...

MANAMA: Vigilant security forces were praised yesterday for quickly arresting masterminds of the alleged terror group. Bahrain will continue to impose the authority of the state and ensure the law...

MANAMA: Bahrain will build on the successes achieved since reforms were launched 10 years ago, His Majesty King Hamad said last night. In his annual address to the nation, marking the last 10 days...

BAHRAIN yesterday vowed to continue work to impose the authority of the state and ensure the law is respected - in the country of institutions and law. The pledge was made as Deputy Premier Shaikh...

KUWAIT yesterday backed Bahrain's measures to foil clandestine plots seeking to subvert its security and stability. This came as HRH the Premier spoke to his Kuwaiti counterpart Shaikh Nasser Al...

A GRATEFUL Bahrain, led by His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, yesterday thanked His Majesty King Hamad for his keynote Ramadan speech and its religious and...

SEVEN Indonesian marine workers stranded off the coast of Bahrain since February could be going home as early as this week, it emerged yesterday. Their Kuwaiti employer has offered to provide plane...

THE Bahrain Irish Society (BIS) has answered an appeal by the Maqaba Charity Fund to support poor children around the kingdom. The society's Children in Eid Campaign will be collecting toys and...

DUBAI: UAE-based Dana Gas yesterday said it had made another gas discovery in Egypt, the firm's fourth find in the country. The South Abu El Naga-1ST well in Nile Delta, has preliminary estimated...

FERRARI customers in Bahrain and other Gulf countries are being asked to get their cars modified, after five 458 Italia supercars worldwide caught fire due to an adhesive material. The small...

A TOP official of a national human rights body yesterday allegedly submitted his resignation letter. Salman Ali Kamaluddine, head of the National Human Rights Organisation, resigned from his...

A SAUDI tourist, who was caught by customs officials with hashish hidden in his sock, was yesterday jailed for six months. The 25-year-old admitted to the Lower Criminal Court obtaining and...

NEWS reports in the UK have named Bahrain one of the destinations at the centre of a political debate surrounding the private life of the British Foreign Secretary. The Mail on Sunday and Sunday...

THE Arad Fort will this week host a special exhibition of jewels by Bahrain residents and jewellery collectors Dr Ronald Koller and Glenda Turnbull. An opening ceremony for the Arabian Bedouin...

Oman’s Ministry of Education has signed an agreement with Intel which will see 45,000 teachers over the next five years trained on how to better use technology in...

PARTNERSHIP: Iranian and Bahraini officials have met to discuss the establishment of a joint commission to increase cooperation in the natural gas...

Oman has agreed to invest $3bn in reviving several fertiliser plants in India, which was one of several joint venture agreements between the two countries, it was reported on...

Al-Futtaim Group, Qatar Islamic Bank, and Kuwait's Aqar Real Estate Investments have entered into a Dhs6bn ($1.6bn) joint venture partnership aimed at constructing an entertainment and retail complex...

Saudi Aramco has raised official October selling prices for all crude grades for customers in Asia, the US, Northwest Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, Bloomberg has reported. The price of Arab Super...

Bahrain's Gulf Finance House (GFH) has said its $300m Jordan Gate project in Amman is due for completion early 2011 following the signing of a new agreement between Kuwait's Bayan Holding and...

Gulf Finance House (GFH) today announced that its landmark Jordan Gate project in Amman will be completed in early 2011. The announcement follows the signing of a new agreement between Bayan...

Kuwait plans to buy US Patriot air defence system missiles as part of its overarching strategy to keep the country's defence capabilities up to date, said a news report, citing the defence...

Bahrain's security forces have accused 23 activists of forming a terrorist network aiming to topple the country's government. They revealed yesterday how a network of groups, both here and abroad,...

The Malaysian unit of Kuwait Finance House (KFH), Kuwait's biggest Islamic lender, is having 'strategic alliance' negotiations in Japan, a newspaper reported on Sunday. '(The...

EzRemit (EzR), a leading provider of money transfer services, said it has signed a strategic partnership with United Bank of Egypt (UBE), the third largest bank in Egypt. EzRemit is part of BFC...

Bahrain Financing Company (BFC), the kingdom’s oldest money transfer and foreign exchange group, has set up a relief fund to help alleviate the sufferings of flood victims in Pakistan. BFC has...

recently inaugurated its new Call Centre under the name 'Fil Khidma'. Mr. Abdul Qader Askalan, Chief Executive Officer of the bank did the official opening of the new call centre in the presence of...

'Buoyant' oil prices will enable oil-rich countries in the Middle East to boost government spending in 2010, helping to pump new life in the private sectors of these countries, which have remained...

email BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - South Mississippi Muslims said by making a positive difference in the community they want to show people that Muslims aren't very different from communities of faith....

Egypt's bid to win a fourth consecutive African Cup of Nations got off to a faltering start on Sunday when it was held to a shock 1-1 draw at home by Sierra Leone in its opening qualifier for the...

The sidewalks and parks in Doha are empty in June, as residents head to the air-conditioned malls for relief from temperatures that soar to 48 degrees (118 F). Professional footballers from the...

Iran's president has tried to ease concerns among neighboring Sunni Arab states that Tehran could target them if armed conflict were to break out with the West over Iran's disputed nuclear...

What began last month with the arrest of an opposition leader in Bahrain has mushroomed into a full-blown political offensive in the tiny Gulf nation with big fault lines: U.S.-allied Sunni rulers...

Egypt said on Sunday that it will host the second round of Israeli-Palestinian direct talks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on September 14. The new round of talks will be held at the level...

Egypt will close its borders with the Gaza Strip for three days as of Friday marking the end of Ramadan fasting month, the deposed Hamas' government in Gaza said Sunday.It will be the first time that...

Egypt's Rafah terminal bordering the Gaza Strip will be closed for three days as of Friday on the occasion of Lesser Bairam, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the holy month of fasting, a...

Egypt ’s opposition began hectoring the Islamist group. The Brotherhood, they said, by far the most muscular and influential of Egypt’s dissident organizations, should withdraw from the...