Dubai, Feb. 22 : Saudi Arabia's prominent scholar Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najim has said those who use alcohol-based bio-fuels in their cars could be committing a `sin'.

Najimi is a member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy that studies Islamic jurisprudence for the Organization of the Islamic Conference. OIC is an international group with a permanent delegation to the United Nations.

Najim directed his warning to Saudi youths studying abroad, but his warning was not an official fatwa or religious edict, just his personal opinion, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Feb. 19 : The Saudi Arabian Government and the country's investigators continue to see a jailed Muhammad al-Awfi, a one-time Guantanamo Bay detainee, as a major threat to world peace, even from prison.

According to Fox News, al-Awfi was captured by Yemeni authorities and transferred to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. He was an Al Qaeda field commander in Yemen after his release from a Saudi "rehabilitation" program.

Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Awfi lived quietly in Saudi Arabia for a year after his release from Guantanamo Bay in November 2007, but he re-emerged last month in a jihadist video that showed him in Yemen, wearing a bandolier of bullets and threatening the United States.

Riyadh  - Saudi Arabia took custody of al-Qaeda commander Mohammed al-Awfi from Yemeni authorities on Tuesday, according to Saudi security sources.

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.

Dubai/Karachi, Feb. 16 : The ICC has briefed the Pakistan and Sri Lanka players, backroom staff and officials on the new ICC Anti-Doping Code (2009) which came into effect on January 1,2009.

The code has several changes from the ICC's previous anti-doping regulations, including the adoption of the International Registered Testing Pool (IRTP), made up of the leading players (according to the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings) from each of the top eight ranked ODI teams.

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.