The rare sight of a woman at the wheel of a car on a Saudi Arabian highway has emerged on a video which shows other drivers giving her the thumbs up in support.
Imagine a lieutenant-colonel in the Saudi Arabian army. Now imagine a conceptual artist from the same country. Put them together and you get Abdulnasser Gharem, who has his first big show in London.
As charities urge G20 leaders to come good on pledges to fix a “broken” global tax system that hurts developing countries, the economic agenda risks being overshadowed by the war in Syria.
As Barack Obama says he is “confident” congress will vote in favour of military action in Syria, Channel 4 News explores the relationships between Syria, her Middle Eastern neighbours, and the west.
She has become Saudi Arabia’s first female film director with Whadjda – a revolutionary film about a girl who wants to own a bicycle. But Haifa al-Mansour tells Channel 4 News she’s not an activist.
Less than a year after the Mers CoV respiratory virus was discovered, it is still not clear how worried we should be about a disease that has a fatality rate of more than 50 per cent.
Western and Arab countries opposed to President Bashar al-Assad agree to give urgent military support to Syrian rebels fighting for his overthrow.
Jon Snow
Human rights were not on the agenda during Prince Charles’s visit to Saudi Arabia – a country with the highest per capita execution rate in the world.
The team behind the construction of Londons Shard is to build the world’s tallest building – a one kilometre high tower in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
Jon Snow
With the war in Mali and killings at a BP oil plant in the Algerian desert, where is the funding for Islamist militants coming from?
David Cameron is touring Gulf states in a bid to patch up relations and boost British arms sales. But critics say he is helping to prop up repressive regimes.
Channel 4 News maps the new frontiers of the terror network al-Qaeda and its affiliates across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
With close ties to Iran and Lebanon, and with its physical proximity to regional powers like Egypt and Turkey, Syria is at the heart of a complex set of relations in the Middle East.
Alex Thomson
Alex Thomson blogs on the battle to win the propaganda war in Syria – and what is motivating foreign interference.
Jon Snow
Should one woman horse rider, who still has to reach the ‘required standard’, be allowed to suggest a Saudi women’s Olympic ‘spring’? asks Jon Snow.