Riyadh  - A female motorist in Saudi Arabia, where women drivers are banned, has left ten people injured in a road crash, Arab media reported Monday.

The car flipped over on a desert road in the eastern al-Jamaa area, according to London-based al-Hayat newspaper.

Among the injured were seven children, one with a broken leg and another who was taken into intensive care, according to a police source cited by the paper.

Riyadh  - Saudi Arabia has appointed the country's first-ever female cabinet official on Saturday as part of a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle.

Saudi King Abdullah appointed Nour Fayez as deputy minister for women's education, in a move considered a milestone in Saudi Arabia, a country in which women only started to vote five years ago.

In the religiously conservative country women are banned from driving, and rights groups have frequently condemned the legal status and treatment of women.

The country, governed via a strict interpretation of Islamic law, prevents unrelated women and men from mixing in public. Women only make up to 5 percent of the workforce in Saudi Arabia, the lowest proportion in the world.

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia has appointed the country's first-ever female cabinet official on Saturday as part of a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle.

Saudi King Abdullah appointed Nour Fayez as deputy minister for women's education, in a move considered a milestone in Saudi Arabia, a country in which women only started to vote five years ago.

In the religiously conservative country women are banned from driving, and rights groups have frequently condemned the legal status and treatment of women.

Riyadh  - Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for an official three-day visit aimed at boosting ties between the two countries.

Saudi King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal were among those who welcomed Hu at the airport, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

In addition to holding talks with the Saudi monarch, Hu is expected to witness the signing of several agreements on trade and energy cooperation, including oil agreements.

Riyadh - The Saudi government has published a list of 85 men worldwide it says adhere to "deviant" ideologies, common Saudi terminology for al-Qaeda, the official SPA news agency reported late Monday.

Saudi security forces urged the men to turn themselves in to Saudi embassies abroad and "return to reason and wisdom", adding that they could be reunited with their families, depending on the charges against them.

The SPA said that 15 of the men "who had been led astray" had done so since Saudi Arabia announced an amnesty programme for militants.

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Jan. 21: Trine Lilleng, the first secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in Riyadh, has sent out an e-mail to friends, equating Israel''s Gaza offensive to Nazi''s Jew Holocaust.

The e-mail includes a juxtaposition of black-and-white pictures from the Holocaust with color images of Operation Cast Lead.

"The grandchildren of Holocaust survivors from World War II are doing to the Palestinians exactly what was done to them by Nazi Germany," the e-mail states.

A copy of the e-mail was obtained by The Jerusalem Post.