Boeing and Brexit vied for attention on global financial markets, as sterling slumped as the political woes of UK prime minister Theresa May appeared to deepen, while the planemaker’s shares came under renewed pressure after countries closed airspace to the 737 Max.

A military base deep inside Saudi Arabia appears to be testing and possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles, experts and satellite images suggest, evidence of the type of weapons programme it has long criticised its arch-rival Iran for possessing.

Oil jumped as Saudi Arabia prepares to slash shipments to US refiners within weeks in an effort to prevent a price-killing build-up of American stockpiles.

Last year, at age 31, Mohammed bin Salman became Saudi Arabia’s crown prince.

It may hard to imagine Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a champion of human rights, yet in the case of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, that is what he has become.

According to the Irish Embassy in Riyadh, “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a welcoming and hospitable country with many unique traditions.”

It’s a shameless heart-string tugger at times. I don’t care. When the craggy loveable oldish guy started crying while saying goodbye to the five mentors in episode 1, I was snotting like a toddler, writes Colm O’Regan. 

Preparations to float shares of Saudi Aramco next year are proceeding, but no decision has been taken yet on the venue for the international listing, the chief executive of the state oil company has said.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cautioned countries in the Middle East against using Lebanon as "a venue for proxy conflicts".

Eoin Hand’s was a journeyman’s career in football, but it was still the stuff of his boyhood dreams. Managing his country was beyond those wildest dreams and he was so close to success. But chaos and catastrophe confounded his best-laid plans.

Oil prices stabilised after Saudi Aramco said it plans to make “the deepest customer allocation cuts in its history” in oil supplies in November to help reduce global inventories and balance the market.

The Saudi king has bucked tradition by naming his successor without consulting the extended royal family. Bernard Haykel looks at the heir apparent who has a plan for when the oil runs out.

The inaugural Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Dublin landed yesterday as the airline pleaded with the UN to intervene in the crisis which has seen the Middle Eastern country cut off from its neighbours. 

World Hijab Day is a good time to acknowledge that states such as Saudi Arabia peddle an extreme form of the religion, says TP O’Mahony.

Ahead of World Hijab Day on February 1, Brigid Aylward reveals what life is like for a Muslim in Ireland and the reaction to wearing the traditional veil

An Egyptian court has ruled against the government's decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia - a landmark verdict likely to deepen tensions with the kingdom.

To understand why Saudi Arabia changed course and decided Opec should go back to managing supply, look at two of the kingdom’s biggest policy challenges: The urgent need to plug holes in its budget and the plan to sell a stake in the state-owned oil monopoly.

It is feared fuel prices will go up after the world's largest group of oil exporters agreed to cut production.

Raneem Saleh, a 20-year-old medical student at UCD, considers herself fortunate that, as a Muslim, she has not experienced hatred or prejudice while living in Ireland.

An informal Opec meeting next month is unlikely to deliver any agreement to limit production because several members including Iran are still pumping below capacity.

A suspected suicide bomber has died and two officers have been injured in an attack Monday morning near the US consulate in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is not all that fond of competition — the kingdom has long reaped rich reward from its Opec membership.

Oil traded near $49 a barrel in New York, yesterday, as Opec ministers arrived in Vienna for talks after prices rebounded from 12-year lows.

A man has divorced his new bride, after she spent their wedding night texting her friends, instead of consummating the marriage.

Ornua is to invest €250m in overseas acquisitions from now to 2020 developing markets for Ireland’s soaring post-quota milk output.

Martin D Stern (Letters, January 6) wrongly suggests that in my letter on January 13 I was trying to imply Israel was ultimately responsible for recent Saudi executions.

Saudi Arabia appears to have floated the idea of a global deal to balance oil markets and lift prices from around the lowest levels in six years although fellow producers Iran, Iraq and Russia yesterday rejected its main idea of cutting output.

The death toll from an air strike on a wedding party in Yemen has jumped to 131, medics said, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in Yemen’s war, that drew strong condemnation from the UN secretary-general.

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit a residential area in a Red Sea town in Yemen, killing at least 120 people in the deadliest strike against civilians since the March offensive began.

News is just breaking of a fatal Saudi-led raid on Yemen.

Efforts to bring Yemen’s warring factions together to discuss their conflict have made some progress, officials said yesterday, as warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition mounted more air strikes against the dominant Houthi group.

A lot of lyrical waxing has been done about the Irish pub, about the intangible qualities that make it a superior night-time venue. 

Since Saudi Arabia's foundation, its leaders have tried to keep a friendly regime in power in Yemen to prevent it from posing a threat. However, Mohamad Bazzi says this time the stakes are higher

Two Saudi women detained for nearly a month for defying a ban on females driving have been referred to a court for terrorism cases

Two Saudi women detained for nearly a month for defying a ban on females driving have been referred to a court for terrorism cases, according to people close to the defendants.

A strong jobs report has boosted US and European stocks, leaving the Dow Jones industrial average just short of the 18,000 mark.

The mother and brother of a British-born photojournalist have appealed to his al-Qaida captors to spare him, saying he “was only trying to do good”.

While Obama has been criticised for not having a strategy, his desire to build a coalition could prove to be the best policy, writes Jim Gaines.

Circle Oil is set to further develop its Middle Eastern assets later this year with both drilling and farm-out activity planned.

One man's plea for somebody to visit him becomes most retweeted message in Saudi history.