A woman in Saudi Arabia who posed for a photo in public without a hijab has been arrested and faces being lashed.

Bangladeshi Nazer al-Islam Abdul Karim, 65, was showered with gifts after people took pity on him on social media.

An outspoken billionaire Saudi prince wants an 'urgent' end to his country's ban on women driving.

The sister of the San Bernardino shooter has spent months trying to adopt her niece, but so far is only allowed to see her in six-hour regular visits.

A British tourist allegedly gang-raped in Dubai faces a prison sentence and needs $42,200 for legal fees after police accused her of having "extra-marital sex".

Not many Kiwis may be satisfied by the Auditor General's report into the propriety of the Government's gift of a sheep-breeding establishment to a breeder in Saudi Arabia.

Despite the Auditor-General's findings, the Opposition continues to call for McCully's head..

A report by the Auditor-General into the controversial deal that saw $11.5 million of taxpayer money spent on a Saudi farm has been released.

The daughter of King Salman of Saudi Arabia has fled Paris after allegedly instructing one of her bodyguards to murder a painter and decorator.

A stalled free trade deal with Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries will be completed, Trade Minister Todd McClay has announced.

A free trade deal between New Zealand and the GCC was concluded in 2009 but has not been signed or ratified.

COMMENT: Burkinis be damned is the one-sided debate raging here in France. Comeback king Nicolas Sarkozy has promised voters he'll ban the burkini.

Even from beyond the grave Dr Walid Juffali continues to defy a former wife. The Saudi tycoon succumbed to cancer on July 20, just

The Saudi government still says it had no connection to the hijackers. Newly released classified information proves otherwise.

A Saudi major who claims has been detained after alleging that officials were running drug-smuggling operations under cover of the Muslim pilgrimage.

Suicide bombers suspected of links to Isis struck for the fourth time in less than a week when they targeted three locations in Saudi Arabia.

It is difficult to view Saudi Arabia's relentless war of attrition in Yemen as anything other than a destructive failure.

The wreck uncovered off the coast of Al Hallaniyah, Mearns announced this week, is almost certainly da Gama's ship Esmeralda, which sank in 1503.

Royal Brunei's first all-female flight crew touched down in Saudi Arabia - a country they're not allowed to drive in.

Citizens of the conservative Saudi Arabia are increasingly turning to social media networks to pursue relationships and plan forbidden rendezvous.

Even if Saudi Arabia wins its struggle with US shale producers over market share, it will face a new billion-barrel adversary.

Saudi Arabia - Stung by falling oil prices, Saudi Arabia has cut spending and subsidies as part of harsh austerity measures that threaten the lavish welfare programs underpinning its stability.

The Turkish government, in league with Saudi Arabia, made a tentative decision to enter the war on the ground in Syria, writes Gwynne Dyer.

It is still not known who will own an abattoir in Saudi Arabia that is being built with taxpayer money, the Government says.

Malaysia's attorney-general says $1 billion transferred into PM Najib Razak's personal bank account was a gift from the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

A look at Islam's two main denominations to help make sense of the Saudi-Iran crisis.

With 158 beheadings in the past 12 months, it is hard to tell whether it is Saudi Arabia that has gone mad, or the United Nations, writes Donna Miles-Mojab.

Saudi Arabia defied the world by escalating its crisis with Iran over the execution of a prominent Shia cleric.