Technology & IT | Saturday 26 September, 2015 12:44 pm

Apple fans brave Sydney rain as new iPhone 6s hit stores

The new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus hit stores on Friday, with dozens of people — and a robot — queuing in Sydney to kick off a global sales cycle that will be scrutinized for signs of how much juice Apple Inc's  marquee product has left. Analysts expect 12 million to 13 million...

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Sports | Saturday 26 September, 2015 12:41 pm

Qatar World Cup to kick off Nov. 21

 Despite hastily canceling a news conference scheduled with President Sepp Blatter after the surprise arrival of Swiss federal police at its headquarters, FIFA did make some decisions during its two-day executive committee meeting that ended Friday. Among the decisions announced through a...

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Environment & Energy | Saturday 26 September, 2015 4:23 am

Rare complete lunar eclipse over Kingdom early on Monday

The Astronomy Society of Jeddah said that the skies above Saudi Arabia would witness a complete lunar eclipse before sunrise on Monday morning, which will also be viewed in the skies of the entire Arab region, North and South America, Europe, Africa and West Asia. Engineer Majid Abu Zahirah,...

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Government | Saturday 26 September, 2015 4:22 am

Citizen offers free use of taxis to Hajis

A concerned Saudi citizen has joined collective efforts of both the government and private sectors in rendering service to pilgrims in the holy sites.  “The citizen is one among those who have shown to the pilgrims magnanimity and benevolence which are in accordance with the spirit of ...

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Government | Friday 25 September, 2015 11:04 am

King orders review of Haj plans

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has ordered a review of the Kingdom’s Haj plans and entire procedures for the annual pilgrimage of Haj following the stampede in Mina.  The King also directed the agencies concerned to carry out a prompt investigation into circumstances...

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Business & Money | Friday 25 September, 2015 11:02 am

Wall Street joins global stocks slide; euro and bonds rise

Stocks around the world fell for a fifth day on Thursday, sliding toward two-year lows, as worries lingered over global growth and as the scandal over Volkswagen’s emissions test-cheating rattled Europe’s carmakers. Government bonds prices rose on safety bids, while the dollar fell...

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Environment & Energy | Friday 25 September, 2015 11:00 am

OPEC is winning battle to stimulate gasoline demand

OPEC’s bid to curb production of high-cost oil is taking time to produce results but the organization is already making good progress on its other objective of stimulating fuel demand. In the first half of the year, gasoline deliveries into US local markets jumped by 4.3 percent compared...

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Healthcare | Friday 25 September, 2015 10:57 am

MoH: No MERS cases among Haj pilgrims

The current number of Coronavirus patients is 20 percent less than in the same period last year, with just 417 cases in comparison to 547 at this time in 2014, according to statistics from the Command and Control Center of the Ministry of Health. This news comes as the Minister of Health...

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Business & Money | Friday 25 September, 2015 10:56 am

Millions to benefit from Persian service of Haj TV

Minister of Culture and Information Adel Al-Toraifi recently launched the Haj TV and Radio Channel ‘1436’ for speakers of the Persian language to broadcast the Haj rituals and movement of pilgrims at the holy sites in Makkah and Madinah.  The minister stressed the fact that...

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Business & Money | Friday 25 September, 2015 10:31 am

Water plan working, claims NWC

The National Water Company (NWC) said it has no record of any water shortages in the holy sites during Haj. The NWC’s head of operations in Makkah and Taif, Abdullah Bin Ahmad, said that new laboratory vehicles were deployed in holy sites to test water in tanks and in the water network to...

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