How was it that U.S. service personnel be converted into American mujahideen? Follow the dots to the Oil Kingdom.

Last week, the number of cases reaches 8,857, up from 4.420 a week earlier. Tomorrow, alert might reach highest level in four-level tier. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao confirms rapid rise in case in his country. Saud Health Ministry launches action plan ahead for pilgrims coming to Makkah.

This is an experiment limited to 15 private schools and only the first three primary grades. But the initiative, which follows that of the “mixed" university built by King Abdullah confirms the will for a cautious modernization.

At the UN conference on environment, the Saudi representative demanded subsidies for revenues to be lost because of global warming. No such subsidies for oil consumers was proposed during 2008 oil price hike.

Slight depreciation of the dollar following the publication of a story that the Gulf countries and their largest customers (including China and Brazil), want to swap oil no longer using the dollar as reference currency.

Lack of work each pushes 2,000 Filipinos per day to abandon the country. Many of them emigrate to Muslim countries, where for years they must give up publicly professing the Catholic faith.