Riyadh  - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Riyadh Sunday for talks on key regional issues.

He and Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal were to discuss issues including Gaza, Palestinian reconciliation and Lebanon ahead of the parliamentary election there on June 7.

Other subjects would be the Iran nuclear issue and developments in Afghanistan and Sudan, informed sources said.

Riyadh - Nearly eight decades on, Mohammed Eid has, at 97, married the girl he fell in love with as a teenager in Saudi Arabia.

According to tribal traditions a girl can only marry one of her cousins within the tribe - so Eid had to look elsewhere. He married twice, and had 42 children and grandchildren.

But when his wife died a year ago, he found his mind straying back to his youthful romance, the London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat reported Wednesday.

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Mar 10 : A 75-year-old widow has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months imprisonment in Saudi Arabia for meeting two young men, who were strangers to her and were reportedly bringing her bread.

Khamisa Sawadi, a Syrian-born woman who was married to a Saudi, was convicted and sentenced last week for meeting men who were not her immediate relatives.

Islamabad, Mar. 6: The Saudi Arabia embassy here has received threatening e-mails warning of attacks on Saudi installations’ in the country.

According to The Nation, the threatening mail, reportedly from al-Qaeda, said that it would carry out attacks on Saudi installations’ such as the embassy, its attaches, and Saudi airline facilities in Pakistan in near future,

The Pakistan Government, however, has denied reports about any such threat mails.

Dubai, Mar 5 : An Indian teenager has admitted to have escaped death at the hands of a Facebook gang called ''Death Room'', which tortures rich school age kids and extorts money from them.

The boy claimed that it was his cheap mobile phone that saved him from the members of the horrendous gang.

The gang members assumed he came from a middle class family so they would not gain by extorting money from them.

The ''Death Room'' gang consisted of three people of unknown nationalities and two Pakistanis.

Dubai, Mar 5 : A world class instructor from Germany is set to hold a workshop on Kerala's ancient martial arts `Kalarippayat' in Dubai this weekend.

Gerhard Schmid, the instructor based in Hamburg, is offering a Kalari foundations workshop on March 6 and 7 at the Zen Yoga studio in Dubai Media City.