Sarah Algethami Bloomberg

A Saudi prince faces jail in Britain for flouting English contempt laws in the latest stage of a long-running dispute over a loan agreement with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. Prince Hussam Bin Saud Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a former chairman of Zain Saudi Arabia, should be imprisoned for a year, a London judge said Friday. The prince, who ...

Saudi Arabia said it intercepted seven ballistic missiles fired at Riyadh and other cities by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, the biggest such barrage since the kingdom went to war against them in March 2015.

Dance music blares from a Riyadh cafe. In the foyer, young women in colorful robes line up to get their names on the waiting list. It's the kind of scene that makes it easy to believe change is coming to Saudi Arabia at breakneck speed.

Even for an OPEC powerhouse intent on re-inventing itself domestically and flexing its muscles in one of the world's most turbulent regions, the past week has been remarkable.

After relying on oil to fuel its economy for more than half a century, Saudi Arabia is turning to its other abundant natural resource to take it beyond the oil age -- desert.

A Saudi prince faces jail in Britain for flouting English contempt laws in the latest stage of a long-running dispute over a loan agreement with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. Prince Hussam Bin Saud Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a former chairman of Zain Saudi Arabia, should be imprisoned for a year, a London judge said Friday. The prince, who ...

Saudi Arabia said it intercepted seven ballistic missiles fired at Riyadh and other cities by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, the biggest such barrage since the kingdom went to war against them in March 2015.

Dance music blares from a Riyadh cafe. In the foyer, young women in colorful robes line up to get their names on the waiting list. It's the kind of scene that makes it easy to believe change is coming to Saudi Arabia at breakneck speed.

Even for an OPEC powerhouse intent on re-inventing itself domestically and flexing its muscles in one of the world's most turbulent regions, the past week has been remarkable.

After relying on oil to fuel its economy for more than half a century, Saudi Arabia is turning to its other abundant natural resource to take it beyond the oil age -- desert.