More than 100 suspected militants linked to al-Qaeda have been arrested in Saudi Arabia, officials have said The interior ministry said 58 Saudis and 55 foreigners in three independent groups were planning to target oil facilities and security forces.

Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi religious channel Awtan TV it has now become the norm. Female broadcasters at the station are draped in the...