[Translate] Group Highlights • Order book remains strong at £58.4bn (2009 year-end £58.3bn). • Group revenues increased to £5,421m (2009 first-half £5,142m). Revenues on an underlying basis * increased by seven per cent to £5,259m. Services revenues increased by eight per cent to £2,615m on an underlying basis. • Profit before financing was £594m (2009 first-half [...]

[Translate] Over the next 10 to 20 years, media in the Middle East will become revolutionized, and a clear winner will emerge in the race to become the information headquarters of the region. From Iran to Morocco, Saudi Arabia to Iraq, media expertise and infrastructure will be in ever-greater demand. Abu Dhabiis poised to take the lead [...]

[Translate] A man who ripped a veil from a Muslim woman’s face as she walked though Glasgow has been jailed for two years. William Baikie, 26, admitted racially assaulting 26-year-old Anwar Alqahtani by forcibly removing her niqab in the city’s Hope Street on 27 April. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how Baikie, who has previous convictions [...]

[Translate] RIYADH — Former boxing champion Mike Tyson, who converted to Islam while in jail in the 1990s, is visiting the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina on pilgrimage, a Saudi daily reported on Saturday. Tyson, who was world heavyweight champion from 1986 to 1990, arrived on Friday in Medina with the Canadian Dawa [...]