The Cabinet approved a SR 60 billion plan for the implementation of a metro rail network in Makkah, which would link the Makkah Metro and the Two Holy Mosques Express Train to facilitate access to the Grand Mosque. The first of four stations will be located in the Ajyad area in ...

Mumbai, December 30: One of the key accused in 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case, Manohar Singh, has confessed to his role in the conspiracy, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) today claimed in a special court here. Singh, arrested from Hatod in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh yesterday, was produced before the special ...

Moscow, December 30: As many as 397 people were killed in Syria Saturday in what could be the country's bloodiest day since the start of the uprising 21 months ago, the opposition Local Coordination Committees (LCC) claimed Sunday. "By the end of Saturday the LCC managed to document 397 martyrs (including more ...

Hyderabad, December 30: The North Zone team of Commissioner’s Task Force on Sunday arrested two persons for illegally possession, transportation and sale of explosives. The police team also seized 1300 gelatin sticks, 2825 electric detonators, a Maruthi Swift, Rs 7000 cash, relevant records and three cell phones from their possession. The arrested ...

  A woman accused of killing an immigrant from India by pushing him in front of a New York subway train has been charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime. Erica Menendez was arrested in New York on Saturday after a pedestrian noticed she looked similar to a suspect seen in ...

Firefighters extinguish burning NATO supply oil tankers and goods trucks at a terminal following a bomb attack in Afghanistan (file photo). Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:11PM GMT At least nine NATO fuel tankers have been torched in Afghanistan after a powerful bomb explosion rocked Jalalabad Airport in country's eastern province of Nangarhar ...

Homicide rate for the US city of Chicago has hit 500 for 2012. (File photo) Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:46PM GMT 0 The number of homicides in Chicago has hit 500 surpassing New York City, which has three times its population and only 414 murders recorded in 2012. The Chicago police department announced on ...

Smoke rises during an explosion from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on November 17, 2012. Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:41AM Egypt has allowed building materials into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing for the first time since Israel imposed a blockade on the Palestinian territory more than five years ...

The Prince Salman Chair for the History and Civilization of the Arabian Peninsula will organize a forum for Saudi chairs and scientific centers abroad to discuss relations between Islamic and Western cultures on Jan. 5. A number of scientific chairs and centers that the Kingdom supports financially in countries such as ...