Regional News

About 30 Saudi women teachers have demonstrated outside the kingdom's Education Ministry, demanding full time jobs.

An Associated Press reporter saw women holding posters Monday calling for full time contracts and benefits that include steady pay and...

A Saudi newspaper says a vegetable seller who set himself on fire in Riyadh after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorized area has died.

The website for newspaper Sada reported that the man, identified only by the family name of Sureihi, died in hospital late on Friday. The...

Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.

Tilak Padney of Nepal's Mountaineering Department says 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides reached the 8,850-meter...

An Egyptian Christian teacher detained over charges of insulting Islam has been released on bail on Tuesday, her lawyer said.

A history and geography teacher in the southern city of Luxor, 24-year-old Dimiana Abdul-Nour paid 20,000 pounds (almost $3,000 dollars) to...

A video of a huge sandstorm filmed by a Saudi passenger aboard a domestic flight in the Kingdom has gone viral in the Middle East region.

The massive wall of sand engulfed the plane and caused the aircraft to be delayed, causing panic among the passengers, according to press...

Iranian state TV says a strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake has jolted the south of the country, injuring at least 15 people.

The report said the quake struck the Arabian Sea port town of Jask at 6:38am on Saturday damaging hundreds of homes. Even moderate quakes...

A bid by Qatar to relocate the United Nations' civil aviation agency from Montreal to the country has angered Canada, where politicians from all sides vowed Friday to band together to fight the move.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation, which sets international civil aviation standards, has been in Montreal since its founding in...

An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced three railway workers to two years hard labour for a train accident that killed 19 police recruits earlier this year.

The state-run news agency MENA reported Saturday that the train conductor and two supervisors were also fined around $70 each for involuntar...

Gunmen on Friday killed the lead Pakistani prosecutor in two high-profile cases — the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the brutal assault on civilians in Mumbai — shocking a country reeling from Taliban attacks as it prepares for nationwide elections.

Chaudhry Zulfikar Ali was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he drove to court in the normally quiet capital, where a concentration of...