A bomb has ripped through a mosque in Saudi Arabia used by interior ministry special forces in the south-western city of Abha killing 17 people.

A Saudi firing squad executed in public seven men convicted of armed robbery despite last-minute appeals by rights groups that their lives be spared as they committed the crimes as juveniles eight years ago.

Tunisia’s president has left power for good, the president of the country’s Constitutional Court said today, declaring that the leader of the lower house of parliament would assume power until elections are held in two months.

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