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Yemen’s Mukalla airport reopens with aid flight after Qaeda exit

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman browses through a book during the honoring ceremony for the winners of the second edition of the King Abdulaziz Book Prize and the sixth edition of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Prize and Grant for studies and history of the Arabian Peninsula held at Al-Yamama Palace in Riyadh on Wednesday. — SPA

King: Educate new generations about our history

Omani Amour Bin Ali Bin Majeed Al-Wahaibi (center), team member of Muscat-based British explorer Mark Evans, leads the train of four camels at the sending off ceremony in the city of Salalah in southern Oman, Thursday. A team of walkers led by Evans set off on a 50-day trek from Oman that will retrace the 1,300-km route taken by a British civil servant, Bertram Thomas, in 1930, from Salalah, through Saudi Arabia, to Doha in Qatar. — AFP photos

Explorer on 50-day trek across ‘Empty Quarter’