State Bank of India (SBI) is set to commence operations in Saudi Arabia in the next four to six weeks, a senior bank official has said.

Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawar and three other senior Yemeni officials wounded in shelling of the presidential compound were transferred to Saudi Arabia for treatment on Saturday, a medic said.

Bombers killed 24 people in attacks on a mosque in central Iraq frequented by provincial officials and later at a hospital where the victims were being treated, officials said on Saturday.

An undersea quake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale on Friday struck the sea off the east coast of Japan’s largest island of Honshu, Xinhua reported.

They might be without key senior players but even a second-string India would be hard to stop for the struggling West Indies when the two sides clash in a one-off Twenty20 match here on Saturday.

Syrian activists called protests on Friday over the dozens of children killed in anti-government protests after the opposition demanded President Bashar al-Assad’s “immediate resignation.”

Wartime Bosnian Serb Army Chief Ratko Mladic said on Friday he was a “gravely ill man” as he made his first appearance before a UN court in The Hague after 16 years on the run from genocide charges.

Tunisian authorities arrested the sister of the country’s toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as part of a continuing crackdown against the former first family, state media reported on Friday.

Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Thursday survived a no-confidence vote after pledging to step down once the country is firmly on the road to recovery from the March 11 quake and nuclear disaster.

Five-year bans handed to three Pakistani cricketers for spot-fixing offences were too lenient, according to a survey of international players released on Thursday.