For Syria's president, it was business as usual, even as his country experienced one of its most dramatic and violent moments. On Saturday, Bashar al-Assad was at work in his heavily guarded Damascus palace..
HSBC announced that it has completed the first ever government guaranteed Sukuk in Saudi Arabia for Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation 'GACA'. Raising SR15bn ($4bn) for GACA, the Sukuk achieved a profit rate of 2.5%.
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday
reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians would be "difficult but
possible," acknowledging there was skepticism talks will succeed when
they resume next month.
Obama still speaks as if he is the candidate, not president President Barack Obama's State of the Union address was full of promise - and that was the trouble. Half way through his four-year term, the president is still speaking as if he is the candidate, still using the undoubted power of his rhetoric to inspire, still calling for change, when he already has the power to make those changes happen.
For most people in the world, driving a car is not only considered a privilege, but a basic human right. Unfortunately for women in Saudi Arabia, the country denies them the opportunity to get behind the wheel. Still, many are attempting to change that, including a group of United States Senators...
SHADADKOT, Pakistan: More than $800 million has been donated or pledged
to help Pakistan's flood victims, the foreign minister said in Sunday,
as hundreds of thousands of people in the south feared more
destruction. 
