After complaining of too heavy workload, a Sri Lankan maid was punished by her employers by hammering 24 nails into her legs, hands and forehead. L.T. Ariyawathi, a 49-year old mother of three, returned on Friday to her native country of Sri Lanka after just five months in Saudi Arabia. Puzzled by her constant complaints of [...]
Moscow, Russia – Despite demands from the U.S. to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear energy, officials in Russia says they will push through with plans to provide fuel to the nation’s first ever nuclear plant in August 21. The Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant will start operations with the expected arrival of the uranium that will [...]
Aside from building what is the World’s Largest Clock in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia is also hoping to establish the city as an alternative to the Greenwich meridian. The grand structure of the new four-faced clock sits atop what is expected to be he world’s second tallest building (when completed). It’s built [...]
Saudi Arabia has restored all traffic to BlackBerry users in the Gulf following Research in Motion‘s (RIM) decision to allow the government to add an intermediary proxy between the country’s telecoms provider and BlackBerry’s servers to monitor messages. RIM’s decision could very well set a precedent with other countries that have been asking them to [...]
Peshawar, Pakistan — The recent surge of flash floods that hit the northwestern region of Pakistan has killed more than 1,000 people. “The level of devastation is so widespread, so large, it is quite possible that in many areas there are damages, there are deaths which may not have been reported,” army spokesman Major-General Athar [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Blackberry users in the Gulf are in jeopardy of losing their service connectivity as authorities in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia outline plans that will effectively cut off BlackBerry e-mail, messaging and Web browsing services starting October. Reports indicate that than a million BlackBerry may have the said [...]
Peshawar, Pakistan — The death toll for Khyber-Pakhtunkwa Province in Pakistan has risen to 400 as some of the worst floods in the country’s history hit this northwestern region, provincial officials said. Hundreds of thousands of people were believed to be unable to evacuate to safer ground as authorities struggled to reach the worst affected [...]
Strait of Hormuz, Oman – A Japanese oil tanker has been damaged when a freak wave in the Strait of Hormuz hit the shp, injuring crew members. Port official in the United Arab Emirates says the freak wave was a result of a small earthquake. “The cause of the incident was a freak wave and [...]
Islamabad, Pakistan – An Airbus A321 Pakistani passenger plane went down in the outskirts of the capital Islamabad killing all 152 people on board. A witness, Ahsan Mukhtar, recounts the details of the crash. “It came from the city toward the Margalla Hills. It was raining heavily. It shattered into pieces as soon as it [...]
