Articles
Saudi Arabia Reports 7 Cases of SARS-like Virus
(RIYADH, Saudi Arabia) — Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry says five people have died and two other patients are in critical condition with confirmed cases of a new...
Saudi Arabia Deported Men For Being Too Handsome
Three men were removed from a festival after it was deemed they would be too irresistible to women.
Saudi Arabia Court Orders Criminal to be Surgically Paralyzed
A Saudi man has been sentenced to paralysis for literally stabbing a friend in the back.
Yemen: Ex-President Saleh Leaves for Saudi Arabia
(SANAA, Yemen) -- Officials at the airport of Yemen's capital Sanaa say former president Ali Abdullah Saleh has left for Saudi Arabia for medical treatment on a...
Saudi Arabia Jails Two Leading Activists for 10 Years
Mohammed Al-Qahtani and Abdullah Al-Hamid, two prominent Saudi human rights activists, were handed 10-year prison sentences this weekend, concluding a trial that...
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Empire State of Mind: In Praise of New York’s Second-Tallest — and Most Beloved — Building
When 1 World Trade Center reaches its final, dizzying height, topped off with a distinctive stainless-steel spire, the glass-sheathed structure will be the...
Time.com Specials
Top 10 Tallest Structures in the World
Saudi Arabia has announced plans to construct the world's tallest building that will tower more than 3,280 feet tall and trounce the current record-holder,...
