DUBAI — The 4-player team, captained by Sandy Crawford (7), won Graham Alban’s Captain’s Day at Arabian Ranches Golf Club yesterday, a Press release said.

Wheat breeders and Agricultural Research Service scientists are counting on a “southern strategy” to protect the entire United States from Ug99, a strain of wheat stem rust disease that has spread from Africa to the Arabian Peninsula.

Saudi Arabian mobile outfit Mobily has announced that new subscribers to all of its post-paid services, including Khatty, Khatty Plus and Mada, will not be charged a monthly subscription fee during the first year of their subscriptions.

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Civil Aviation has revealed that the new $51.3m Yanbu Airport has opened, reported the Khaleej Times. The first aircraft to land at the facility was a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah.

ABOARD THE BABUR, Arabian Sea Pirates from two small skiffs seized the crew of a Japanese vessel off anarchic Somalia’s coast. American forces fired on the skiffs and destroyed them. Now the navies of the U.S. and 19 other countries are after bigger prey.

ABOARD THE BABUR, Arabian Sea — Pirates from two small skiffs seized the crew of a Japanese vessel off anarchic Somalia’s coast. American forces fired on the skiffs and destroyed them. Now the navies of the U.S. and 19 other countries are after bigger prey.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner, who died in 1993, has a new book out this fall — but it’s one Stegner’s son and his literary agent say should never have seen the light of day. “Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil” was published in September by the tiny, California-based Selwa Press.

At an extraordinary general meeting held yesterday (December 1, 2007), at IBN RUSHD headquarters in Yanbu industrial city, the SABIC affiliate, the Arabian Industrial Fibers Company (IBN RUSH) approved the General Investments Fund (GIF) as a partner in IBN RUSHD. It also approved: Increasing IBN RUSHD’s capital from SAR 3.55 billion to SAR 8.51 billion; Capital restructuring by issuing new …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -A Saudi Arabian newspaper said Sunday that suspected Al Qaeda terrorists were allegedly able to smuggle eight Chinese-made missiles into the kingdom before they were arrested as part of a terror sweep.

A Saudi Arabian newspaper said Sunday that suspected Al Qaeda terrorists were allegedly able to smuggle eight Chinese-made missiles into the kingdom before they were arrested as part of a terror sweep.