An American citizen was injured when his car came under fire in Saudi Arabia’s eastern al-Ihsaa province, according to the official Saudi Press Agency.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has died, according to Saudi state TV. He was 90.

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has been admitted to hospital for medical tests.

Saudi Arabian authorities have uncovered “terrorist” cells plotting attacks against police and civilians in the capital Riyadh, a news agency reports.

Humanitarian conditions have grown even more dire in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo with activists reporting dwindling stocks of food and cooking gas and only intermittent electricity supplies as droves of local residents flee almost two weeks of intense clashes between rebels and regime forces.

Rescuers working under floodlights, pulled a 13-year-old boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building today, more than 100 hours after a massive earthquake levelled buildings in eastern Turkey, killing at least 550 people.

Islamist terrorists may exploit the chaos and misery caused by the floods in Pakistan to gain new recruits, the country’s president said today.

SAUDI emergency services said the death toll from floods that tore through the port city of Jeddah this week had risen to 103, with another 1,400 rescued, the state news agency reported yesterday.

Officials say 48 people have died in Saudi Arabia and 900 were rescued after the heaviest rainfall in years.

The official Saudi news agency said a wanted militant blew himself up in an apparent assassination attempt against one of the senior princes involved in the kingdom’s aggressive anti-terror campaign.

Saudi Arabia plans to increase its oil production by 200,000 barrels a day next month, the kingdom's oil minister told United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon.

THE SAUDI Justice Ministry has announced that a girl gang-raped by seven men and then sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes for adultery had confessed to cheating on her husband.

The Saudi Justice Ministry announced that a girl who was gang raped by seven men and then sentenced to six months prison and 200 lashes for adultery had confessed to cheating on her husband, in its latest response to the negative international reaction to the incident.

Syrian President Bashar Assad expressed scepticism today towards US President George Bush’s call for an international Middle East peace conference, dismissing the offer as “just words”.

Three members of Saudi Arabia’s powerful religious police were to go on trial today for their alleged involvement in the death of a Saudi man they arrested for being alone with a woman who was not a relative – an act considered an offense in the kingdom.

Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling, the Interior Ministry said in a statement today.

Saudi authorities today beheaded an Ethiopian woman convicted of killing an Egyptian man over a dispute, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The janjaweed militia that is accused of widespread atrocities in Darfur is actively supported by the Sudanese government, US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said today.

The Iranian president had expressed support for a 2002 Arab peace initiative during talks with Saudi officials, it was reported today.

A Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin and two local men who robbed a bank and murdered a foreigner were beheaded in Saudi Arabia today, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

The leaders of Jordan and Egypt held an emergency meeting in Cairo today as thousands demonstrated across the Arab world against Israel’s expanding assault on Lebanon – the worst Israeli attack on its neighbour in 24 years.

Saudi security forces reportedly shot dead at least five suspected terrorists believed to be involved in a foiled attack on the world’s biggest oil processing complex in Saudi Arabia early today.

Health officials have detected the H5 variant of the bird flu virus in five falcons during routine checks after the end of the hunting season, the Saudi Agriculture Ministry reported.

Rescue workers still hoped to find survivors from a four-story building that collapsed in Islam’s holiest city, killing at least 53 people and marring the start of the annual gathering of millions of pilgrims.

Saudi security forces battled suspected al-Qaida militants across the kingdom today, killing four wanted extremists in the capital and clashing with armed men in the holy city of Medina.

A Saudi man was beheaded today after being convicted of killing his wife.

Security forces killed the al-Qaida terrorist group’s leader in Saudi Arabia during a fierce gun battle today in Riyadh, an Interior Ministry official said.

Saudi King Fahd’s condition is stable and reassuring, Crown Prince Abdullah said today, three days after the monarch was hospitalised suffering from pneumonia.

King Fahd of Saudi Arabia was in a stable condition today, medical officials said, a day after the monarch was taken to hospital for unspecified medical tests.

King Fahd was taken to a Riyadh hospital today for medical tests, the Saudi Press Agency said.

Two Iraqi men were beheaded today for smuggling drugs into Saudi Arabia, the country’s Interior Ministry said.

Islamic militants threw explosives at the gate of the heavily-guarded US consulate in Jeddah in a bold assault, then forced their way into the building, prompting a gun battle that left seven people dead and several injured before the three-hour long crisis was brought under control.

Islamic militants using a car today attacked the heavily-guarded U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with explosives and machine guns in a explosion and gunbattle that left seven people dead and several others injured.

Security forces have arrested the most wanted terrorist in the kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency said today.

THE head of the American hostage murdered by militants last month has been found after a raid on the hideout of an al-Qaida leader in Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi man was beheaded in the kingdom’s capital today for attempting to rape a woman, the Interior Ministry said.

An American was shot and killed Saturday in the Saudi Arabia capital, Riyadh, the chief of the police said.

Saudi security forces have stormed an expat housing complex where suspected Islamic militants are holed up with a reported 50 hostages after attacking oil company offices.

The mastermind of a deadly rampage that killed five belonged to a Saudi opposition group in London, according to officials in the Saudi industrial town of Yanbu today.

Saudi police seized a car today packed with explosives that they had been searching for two months, an Interior Ministry official said.

Waves of pilgrims today jostled or shoved their way through crowds for devil-stoning rituals, a day after 244 people were crushed to death during the same rites at the annual Muslim pilgrimage in Mina, Saudi Arabia.

A stampede during a stoning ritual at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca killed 244 worshippers, a Saudi Hajj Ministry official said today.

An unknown number of pilgrims were trampled to death today during a stoning ritual at the annual hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.

Saudi security forces today foiled a terrorist plan to detonate a car bomb in the capital, Riyadh, killing two suspected terrorists.