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A goal in each half Wednesday gave South Korea's Pohang Steelers a 2-0 victory over Qatari minnows Umm-Salal and a crucial cushion to take into the second leg of their AFC Champions League semi-final. The other semi-final in Jeddah between Al Ittihad ...

A Saudi man whose televised boasts about his sex life outraged the country's conservatives was sentenced to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes on Wednesday, his lawyer said. Mazen Abdul Jawad, a 32-year-old airline sales clerk, was convicted by a Jeddah ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A Saudi court has sentenced a man to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes for boasting about his sexual exploits on television, in a case that has divided public opinion in the conservative Islamic kingdom. Abdul-Jawad, ...

Boasting one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, a team of top scientists and a campus where female and male students can mingle freely, Saudi Arabia's new multi-billion dollar university aims to break both scientific and social barriers. Officially the goal ...

The United States on Tuesday condemned a "cowardly" attack last week on Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister, saying it underscored the strong threat still posed by Al-Qaeda. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a member of the Saudi royal family who heads the kingdom's ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef defended late on Saturday the policy of enticing "repentant" militants after one tried to assassinate his son, but warned there could be more and worse attacks ahead. A suicide bomber posing as ...

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Sunday has identified in an Internet statement the suicide bomber who tried to assassinate Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister this week. The statement posted on Jihadist forums said Abdullah Hassan Taleh Asiri, who blew himself up ...

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has identified the suicide bomber who tried to assassinate Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister, a US monitoring group reported on Sunday. SITE Intelligence Group cited a statement posted on Jihadist Internet forums as saying Abdullah Hassan Taleh ...

JEDDAH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's religious police is cracking down on summer festivals that the government hopes will promote domestic tourism, in the latest battle between liberals and conservatives in the world's biggest oil exporter. The Saudi government is trying to promote ...

The scandal over a man boasting about his sex life on a popular satellite television show has sparked outbursts against the huge popularity of often-racy offshore broadcasts in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia. Influential clerics have lashed out at the most popular satellite broadcasters ...