Saudi Arabia Bans Mobile Phone Cameras
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By ABDULLAH SHIHRI    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia  -- Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has barred the use of mobile phones with built-in cameras, blaming them for "spreading obscenity."    The edict, which follows a failed ban on the sale and import of the wildly popular devices, is the most sweeping attempt by any nation to prevent the voyeurism invited by the new technology.    Camera-equipped phones have caught on fast in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East - particularly in oil-rich Gulf countries - prompting complaints about privacy in places where people undress, "theft" of reading materials at book stores and newsstands, and corporate espionage by employees...
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - One Saudi woman ignored the cancer growing in her breast for fear of seeing a male doctor. One was summarily divorced on the mere suspicion she had the disease, while a third was dragged away from a mammogram machine - the technicians were men.
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Saudi Arabia says it may forbid Indonesian airlines flying to the country for safety reasons, following an EU ban.
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A human rights group said Thursday that Saudi Arabia violated international law when it ordered the beheadings earlier this week of four Sri Lankan robbers and then left their headless bodies on public display in the capital of Riyadh.
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A British investigation into a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia was stopped because Riyadh threatened to withdraw all co-operation on security and intelligence, a newspaper reported.
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DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 23 -- For the first time since a demonstration in 1990, a group of Saudi women is campaigning for the right to drive in this conservative kingdom, the only country in the world that prohibits female drivers.
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - Prominent Saudis dismissed  U.S. accusations of severe violations of religious freedom in  the kingdom and said on Thursday that the criticisms were  politically motivated.
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Saudi Arabia has indefinitely banned the distribution of a leading Arab newspaper, days after the paper disclosed that a Saudi extremist had played a key role in a violent Iraqi al-Qaida front group.
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For the first time in 41 years, Saudi Arabia is allowing local elections. The ruling family's goal, political analysts and diplomats say, is to determine whether a more open government might help defuse a rising armed threat by Muslim  militants in the kingdom.
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Consumer Electronics Association publishes guidelines for responsible use of cell phone cameras
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A federal agency bans US imports of new mobile phones made with Qualcomm chips due to a patent row.
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Driving while using hand-held mobile phones is outlawed with motorists facing fines and penalty points.
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A watchdog group has suggested a mandatory flash on camera mobiles to avoid illicit photographs.
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Saudi Arabia has launched a series of radio advertisements in the US aimed at restoring the kingdom&#39;s battered public image there.
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Saudi security forces thwarted planned protest marches in the kingdom&#39;s two main cities on Thursday, deploying in force in the capital Riyadh and arresting at least a dozen people in the Red Sea port of Jeddah.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabia's first nationwide elections, the government announced yesterday, dashing hopes of liberal Saudis and easing fears among conservatives that the kingdom is moving too fast on reforms.
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By DONNA ABU-NASR RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi women still can't drive cars, but they can sell them.