The case of the girl, who married last year, has prompted the state-run Human Rights Commission to call for a legal minimum age in the kingdom. The girl, now 12, has been fighting her case in the town of Buraidah, near the capital Riyadh. She was married to her father’s elderly cousin last year, with [...]

Prince Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, Emir of Riyadh, studies a scale model of the Al-Dhuheira district of the capital as envisaged in plans to be carried out by Tameer Company. Khaled Bin Abdullah Al-Dughaithir of Tameer explained how the central Riyadh district would be transformed into a socioeconomic hub of 7,000 inhabitants boasting top class [...]