Saudi Girls

A Kerala man who fled to Saudi Arabia after allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl two years ago was finally extradited to India last week and charged under POCSO

Buthaina Mansur al-Rimi's life has changed drastically since last year orphaned in Sanaa, the little girl controversially ended up in Saudi Arabia for medical care and has just returned to Yemen's capital.

Three days before Halloween, little girls dressed up like Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss and Ronda Rousey converged on Long Island for the WWE's first all-female pay-per-view event. Rousey, the former UFC megastar, is the face of WWE's new and improved women's division, one no longer known for bikini contests and two-minute matches. She closed Sunday's "...

Every few metres someone -- a newlywed couple, a group of young girls with balloons -- stops Samar Almogren to cheer her on or flash her a thumbs-up.

Shocking mobile phone footage shows a lion cub attacking a young girl in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah. Fortunately, she escaped with just a few cuts and bruises. However, what's most shocking is that the lion was part of a bizarre activity organised as part of the Jeddah Spring Festival, where children were allowed to run around and play with the six-mont...

Ripples of reform from Riyadh have been attracting positive press for the Saudis in Washington. The government recently pledged to permit women to drive, allow movie theaters into the country and to teach physical education to girls in schools. These are important steps, especially for gender equality. This month, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohamm...

A 15-year-old Saudi girl living in Germany has proposed designing a headscarf emoji as countries across Europe wrestle with the issue of the Muslim veil.

Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj recently helped a young girl have a happy Father's Day after responding to her distress call on Twitter. In several tweets, Rukmini Shankar, who recently graduated class 10, wrote to the minister asking for help when her father was allegedly taken into police custody after an accident in Saudi Arabia.

Tashfeen Malik, a suspect in the California attacks, studied at a Pakistani university but spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia. The timing and circumstances of her shift into militancy, however, remain a mystery.

Saudi Arabia on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom's attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman.

In a first for ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, a state school has introduced sports for girls, after a call for the lifting of a ban on women in sports, a newspaper reported today.

Within their female-only campuses, women at Saudi Arabia's universities let loose.

A Saudi cleric has said baby girls should be veiled to avoid sexual harassment, in remarks broadcast on television that sparked outrage in the conservative kingdom.

Online activists in Saudi Arabia are calling for harsher punishments for child abuse after reports emerged that a prominent cleric received a light sentence after confessing to the beating his 5-year-old daughter to death.

A 90-year-old Saudi man's marriage to a 15-year-old girl in exchange for a fat dowry has sparked widespread condemnation from human rights and social media activists in the kingdom.

A Kerala man who fled to Saudi Arabia after allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl two years ago was finally extradited to India last week and charged under POCSO

Buthaina Mansur al-Rimi's life has changed drastically since last year orphaned in Sanaa, the little girl controversially ended up in Saudi Arabia for medical care and has just returned to Yemen's capital.

Three days before Halloween, little girls dressed up like Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss and Ronda Rousey converged on Long Island for the WWE's first all-female pay-per-view event. Rousey, the former UFC megastar, is the face of WWE's new and improved women's division, one no longer known for bikini contests and two-minute matches. She closed Sunday's "...

Every few metres someone -- a newlywed couple, a group of young girls with balloons -- stops Samar Almogren to cheer her on or flash her a thumbs-up.

Shocking mobile phone footage shows a lion cub attacking a young girl in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah. Fortunately, she escaped with just a few cuts and bruises. However, what's most shocking is that the lion was part of a bizarre activity organised as part of the Jeddah Spring Festival, where children were allowed to run around and play with the six-mont...

Ripples of reform from Riyadh have been attracting positive press for the Saudis in Washington. The government recently pledged to permit women to drive, allow movie theaters into the country and to teach physical education to girls in schools. These are important steps, especially for gender equality. This month, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohamm...

A 15-year-old Saudi girl living in Germany has proposed designing a headscarf emoji as countries across Europe wrestle with the issue of the Muslim veil.

Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj recently helped a young girl have a happy Father's Day after responding to her distress call on Twitter. In several tweets, Rukmini Shankar, who recently graduated class 10, wrote to the minister asking for help when her father was allegedly taken into police custody after an accident in Saudi Arabia.

Tashfeen Malik, a suspect in the California attacks, studied at a Pakistani university but spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia. The timing and circumstances of her shift into militancy, however, remain a mystery.

Saudi Arabia on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom's attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman.

In a first for ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, a state school has introduced sports for girls, after a call for the lifting of a ban on women in sports, a newspaper reported today.

Within their female-only campuses, women at Saudi Arabia's universities let loose.

A Saudi cleric has said baby girls should be veiled to avoid sexual harassment, in remarks broadcast on television that sparked outrage in the conservative kingdom.

Online activists in Saudi Arabia are calling for harsher punishments for child abuse after reports emerged that a prominent cleric received a light sentence after confessing to the beating his 5-year-old daughter to death.

A 90-year-old Saudi man's marriage to a 15-year-old girl in exchange for a fat dowry has sparked widespread condemnation from human rights and social media activists in the kingdom.