A Saudi prince describes US businessman Donald Trump, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, as a "disgrace to America".

Votes are being counted in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections, in which women were allowed for the first time to cast their ballots.

Saudi Arabia is going to the polls in unprecedented municipal elections in which women can cast a ballot for the first time.

A major report given by the advisers to Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman to The Daily Telegraph suggests that a major change is about to come.

Saudi custom officials and law enforcing personnel stopped a smuggler who tried to bring nearly 48,000 cans of beer disguised as Pepsi cans into Saudi Arabia.

The interior ministry of Saudi Arabia bans 50 baby names that they believe offend or is affiliated with the Kingdom’s cultural or religious sentiments.

The government will continue sending female workers for domestic jobs to Saudi Arabia, says Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam.

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, whose flogging sentence caused an outcry, has been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov human rights prize.

The United States announces that Iran may take part in talks to end the civil war in Syria and warned of increased military action against the Islamic State.

At least one person was killed and about 87 others were injured in homemade bomb explosions in front of Hossaini Dalan in old Dhaka early hours today.

The Saudi Arabian government announces new labour regulations to protect the workers’ rights by bringing the employers under strict rules including financial fines.

The death toll from last month's hajj stampede has topped 2,100, according to tallies given by foreign officials, making it by far the deadliest disaster in the pilgrimage's history.

The number of Bangladeshi pilgrims killed in the Mina stampede during Hajj last month now stands at 137, while at least 53 others still remain missing.

The Saudi-led air coalition targeting Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen mistakenly hits a pro-government position, killing at least 20 troops, security officials and witnesses say.

A gunman killed five people at a Shia gathering in eastern Saudi Arabia before being shot dead by police in an attack claimed by a group linked to Islamic State militants.

We are comforted by the fact that our government has been successful in bringing back the prime accused in the Rajon murder case after he had escaped to Saudi Arabia.

Law enforcers take Kamrul Islam, the prime accused in the case filed over the killing of 13-year-old Samiul Alam Rajon, to Sylhet hours after he was brought back from Saudi Arabia.

The prime accused in 13-year-boy Rajon murder case Kamrul Islam is to be brought back to the country from Saudi Arabia on Thursday.

The number of Bangladeshis killed in the Mina stampede during Hajj last month rises to 92 while at least 80 others remain missing.

A UK pensioner is caught with homemade wine in Saudi Arabia could receive 360 lashes - a punishment his family said would kill him.