Members of the Jeddah Association of Hearing Impaired Women (Emkan) triumphed in a chess tournament in Jeddah, competing against non impaired people to take the top four places

Over 75% of the world's landmass is drying up permanently, according to a report released at the UN summit in Riyadh on combating desertification

An eight-year-old inventor, Lama Al-Badin, from Dammam, won an international competition to design a pair of glasses that help blind people by beating almost 1.000 entries from 19 countries in the 'Glasses of the Future' competition

Nadhmi al-Nasr, the head of the Neom project, the huge 'futuristic city' under construction in Saudi Arabia at the behest of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has unexpectedly resigned; two other managers had resigned in recent months

The Saudi Falcons Club's Hadad programme announced a strategic partnership with NEOM to improve falcon habitat in the NEOM nature reserve