| Saudi -Businesses oppose SR 6,000 minimum wage for nationals Saudi businessmen have unanimously rejected a proposal made by the National Workers' Committee to increase the minimum wage of Saudis in the ... Saudi- Bangladeshi cleaners accuse employer of exploitation More than 2,000 Bangladeshis working as cleaners demonstrated in front of their company's headquarters yesterday in Jeddah, demanding the ... Qatar to establish USD5.5b Oryx Island for 2022 World Cup Barwa Real Estate CEO, Abdulla al-Subaie, stated that the company will develop a USD5.5 billion island off the coast of Doha to accommodate World Cup fans, ... Electric cars slow to gain traction in Germany
 Germany plans to have one million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020, but so far that goal seems remote as the nation's motorists have shown ... Kuwait- Hawalli private clinics get citations During a surprise inspection campaign against private clinics in Hawalli, the Medical Licenses and Medicines Inspection Department of the ... Bid to abduct girl in Kuwait A Kuwaiti man, whose identity has not been disclosed, has filed a complaint with the Mina Abdullah Police Station accusing the son of his ... Youths vie for top US spelling honor
 The 86th annual National Spelling Bee kicks off Tuesday with 281 youngsters from eight nations putting their ability to spell some of the most ... Venezuela says open to oil production cut
 Venezuela would be open to an oil production cut if the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided it was necessary to help ... Japan retains status as top creditor nation
 Japan kept its position as the world's largest creditor nation for the 22nd straight year in 2012, government data showed Tuesday, as the dollar's ... Kuwait oil minister quits ahead of parliament grilling
 The Kuwaiti ruler on Monday accepted the resignation of Oil Minister Hani Hussein who quit apparently to avoid being questioned in parliament over a ... France blacklists 17 countries for handling of foreign aid
 France has drawn up a blacklist of 17 countries including Switzerland that do not help investigate foreign aid fraud, banning the use of their banks ... Report lauds Africa growth, admonishes abuses by multinationals
 Africa has favourable medium-term economic prospects although growth rates haven't recovered to pre-crisis levels, according to a report released ... Europe stocks end up as London, New York shut for holidays
 Europe's stock markets closed on a positive note on Monday as market watchers said investors focused on profit-taking as both the London and New York ... Women who smoke and drink are at higher risk than men: study
 Women who smoke and drink heavily are at a higher risk of early death than men who do the same, a study said Tuesday.Data taken from a Europe-wide ... East German spying victims share memories on stage
 Former victims of East Germany's spying apparatus and a state informant recount their dark memories in a play that, more than two decades after the ... Don't auction off Dreyfus prison letter, says French heir
 A grandson of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army captain wrongly accused of treason over a century ago, on Monday urged a private collector not to allow a ... Youth in crisis-hit Spain becoming a 'lost generation'
 Despite having a bachelor's degree, five years of professional experience and speaking three languages, Paloma Fernandez has joined the swelling ... Sick workers pay price for Chinese growth
 As China boomed around 200 men set out from Shuangxi's rural idyll to build its infrastructure and skyscrapers. Now lung disease from dust has killed ... 'Brazil's vuvuzela' banned at Confed Cup
 The "caxirola", Brazil's percussion answer to South Africa's plastic vuvuzela horn, will be banned at next month's Confederations Cup for security ... Croatia holds first same-sex marriage march
 Some 400 people took part Monday in the first ever same-sex marriage march in staunchly Catholic and largely conservative Croatia, set to join the ... Taliban criticise Kabul's pink balloon art project
 The official Taliban website has published an article criticising an art project in which 10,000 pink balloons were given away for free in Kabul, ... | 
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