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KUWAIT CITY The ministry of education and higher education made public on Monday the end-of-year results for Grade 12 students, with 18,228 students passing, Al Anbaa newspaper reported. Students pursuing the “literary stream” scored a pass rate of…

Source:7/1/2009: Kuwait in focus: 18,228 high school students pass Grade 12 examinations

rIYADh // Saudi Arabian authorities captured a wanted al Qa’eda member yesterday after a brief gun battle in the central city of Buraidah, the interior ministry said. A ministry spokesman, Gen Mansour al Turki, said he could not divulge the name of the…

Source:7/1/2009: Middle East: Wanted al Qa eda member captured in Saudi

ore than a week of bombings by insurgents appeared to do little to deter Iraqis from celebrating the United States’s withdrawal yesterday from the country’s urban areas. Thousands attended a concert at the Baghdad zoo and saw firework displays. What is…

Source:7/1/2009: Comment: Iraqis in control of their own destiny

Riga Latvia’s central bank sold lati for the third time since November after the currency strengthened to the limit of its trading band because of a shortage on the market. The central bank sold 29.5 million lati (Dh216.5 million) to commercial banks…

Source:6/30/2009: International: Government offloads currency

New Delhi Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad yesterday called for a debate on legalising homosexuality in the country, emphasising the need for a consensus. “There should be a broader consensus across party lines… Parliamentarians might have some…

Source:6/30/2009: India: Debate on legalising homosexuality

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