Saudi Arabia's first female astronaut to travel to space, Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher, will depart for the International Space Station today on the Axiom Space 2 mission, according to US space agency NASA

The first meeting of the Council of Arab Ministers on Cyber Security will be hosted today in Riyadh and will be attended by officials and experts from several Arab League countries

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