Clinton says Israel faces 'difficult' choices on path to peace

Editorial: Health care hiatus

Had President Barack Obama’s health care bill been defeated Sunday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would yesterday have skipped down the steps of his plane onto the Washington tarmac an extremely happy man. That Obama won the House of Representatives vote, albeit narrowly, will have changed Netanyahu’s mood.

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Distribution of diabetes drug Avandia suspended

RIYADH: The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has suspended the use of GlaxoSmithKline’s diabetes drug Avandia for six months, linking the drug’s use to adverse cardiovascular effects.

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US FDA suspends use of Glaxo's rotavirus vaccine

WASHINGTON: Doctors should temporarily stop using GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Rotarix vaccine against a diarrhea-causing virus called rotavirus because it is contaminated with an apparently harmless pig virus, the company said on Monday.

Women should be partners in shaping future

But society denies them education thinking they are only meant to take care of husbands and kids

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EEC completes 50 km of roads at King Abdullah Economic City

JEDDAH: Emaar the Economic City (EEC), the Tadawul-listed company developing King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in Rabigh, north of Jeddah, has completed 50 km of roads inside KAEC, linking all parts of the city to each other and to the Jeddah-Yanbu and Jeddah-Rabigh highways.

Tasheel issues 9,909 visas for foreign workers in 18 months

JEDDAH: The Jeddah Human Resource Development Council’s Tasheel office has issued 9,909 visas to several companies in the city to recruit foreign manpower over the past 18 months.

Sarkozy prepares Cabinet reshuffle after poll debacle

PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy looked set to shake up his government on Monday after the center-right was savagely beaten in regional elections, with the minister in charge of sensitive pension reforms facing the chop.

US passes landmark health care bill

WASHINGTON: For the first time in history, a comprehensive health care bill passed both Houses of Congress on Sunday night. The bill is meant to give health care to 32 million Americans who have been shut out of the market, save over 30,000 lives per year and regulate the insurance companies.

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India test fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

NEW DELHI: India successfully tested Sunday a "maneuverable" version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which it has jointly developed with Russia, news reports said.

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US warns ships off Yemen of possible attacks

DUBAI: The US government has warned ships sailing off Yemen's coast of the risk of Al-Qaeda attacks similar to a bombing of the US warship Cole in 2000 that killed 17 US sailors.

Michael Jackson doctor interrupted CPR, says witness

LOS ANGELES: Michael Jackson's doctor halted CPR on the dying pop star and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed new light on the singer's chaotic final moments.

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Spaceship makes 1st flight strapped to mothership

MOJAVE, California: Virgin Galactic's new space tourism rocket has been taken aloft over the California desert by a mothership aircraft on its first so-called captive-carry test flight.

New York food trucks turn to Twitter

NEW YORK: Whether it's fomenting revolution or telling people what you had for breakfast micro blogging service Twitter seems to have it all.

Satellite used to locate teachers lost in desert

TAIF: Taif police rescued seven teachers from a minibus that got lost in a desert thanks to a sandstorm on Saturday.

Two teachers cheat death in Yanbu road mishap

YANBU: Two teachers were injured on Sunday after they lost control of their car on their way home from school.

Fugitive found in bar in hospital gown

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania: A fugitive wanted for bank robbery in Michigan state is in custody after police say he walked out of a Pittsburgh hospital and into a bar wearing only his hospital gown, with an intravenous needle still his arm.

Venezuela's Chavez says he’s ‘pro-Internet’

CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez denied on Sunday that he planned to censor or limit the Internet in Venezuela, saying on the contrary Web use had shot up more than nine fold during his decade in power.

Google takes risky route in online spat

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. will shift its search engine for China off the mainland but won’t shut it down altogether, and it will maintain other operations in the country. It’s an attempt to balance its stance against censorship with its desire to profit from an explosively growing Internet market.