Saudi man divorces wife through SMS!

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - The Iraqi journalist, who threw his shoes at former US President George W. Bush to vent his anger, has been flooded with offer of cars, wives and money as he prepares to get out of jail.

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A 22-year-old woman has divorced her 85-year-old husband because he is sex mad. Kristen Hardy, who was married to her boss Joe Hardy, while working at his luxury hotel in Farmington, Pennsylvania, has disclosed that his sexual appetite was too much for her to satisfy.

July 21st, 2009 LONDON - The Saudi Arabian princess, who is in secret British asylum after giving birth to an illegitimate child, told the British Asylum Tribunal that her country's law would award her killing by flogging and stoning if she was made to return home. The young woman, who has a love child with a British man, won her claim for refugee status after telling a judge that her adulterous affair made her liable to death by stoning under Sharia law, The Telegraph reports.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - A Saudi Arabian princess has been granted secret asylum in Britain after she claimed that her country would award her death penalty for having an illegitimate child. The young woman, who has a love child with a British man, won her claim for refugee status after telling a judge that her adulterous affair made her liable to death by stoning.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been assured by the chief of the country's intelligence agency Mossad, Meir Dagan, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran's nuclear sites. Dagan held secret talks with Saudi officials to discuss the possibility of such a raid earlier this year.

June 19th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh opposition leader and two-time prime minister Khaleda Zia may get her politician son Tarique Rahman to return from Britain to rejuvenate the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a media report here said Friday. Tarique, who faces graft charges, had given an understanding that he would quit politics when the previous military-backed caretaker government freed him from jail to go abroad for medical treatment.

May 1st, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Mel Gibson's former girlfriend has offered to help his wife, Robyn, win the divorce battle because she still hasn't forgiven him for two-timing her. Comedian Diana Alouise insists she would never have dated the 'Mad Max' star if he had been honest about his marital status when they met in the late 1980s.

May 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Mel Gibson's former mistress wants to help his wife win the divorce battle- insisting she still hasn't forgiven the actor for cheating on her. Comedian Diana Alouise admits that she would never have dated the 'Mad Max' star if he had been honest about his marital status when they met in the late 1980s.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - Rock star Jon Bon Jovi says he is terrified of his wife Dorothy Hurley and credits this fear with keeping their marriage alive for two decades. The couple will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this year, reported contactmusic.com.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - A British air stewardess was sacked for refusing to fly to Saudi Arabia after she was ordered to wear a traditional Islamic robe and walk behind male colleagues. Lisa Ashton, who worked for BMI, was told that she was expected to wear in public in Saudi Arabia the abaya, a long black robe that leaves only the face uncovered.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A group of hard-line Saudi clerics have urged the kingdom's new information minister to ban women from appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines. The 35 clergymen also called on Abdel Aziz Khoja, who was appointed by King Abdullah February 14 as part of a wide reform drive, to prohibit the playing of music and music shows on television, reports the Daily Express.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama's recent call for a 'reconciliation process' in Afghanistan has led to spurt in informal contacts between Taliban militants and other stakeholders in a series of capitals, including New Delhi, a newspaper reported Sunday. Key players in the move include Abdullah Anas, an Algerian who was once close to Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden but now preaches moderation to young Muslims in British mosques, Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz and Qayum Karzai, the Afghan president's brother and his representative in the talks.

February 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Rocker Josh Kelley doesn't like touring too much as he misses his actress wife Katherine Heigl. According to contactmusic.com, Kelley misses his wife Heigl when he travels to different cities.

February 4th, 2009 JAKARTA - Women's emancipation and political differences have contributed to a sharp rise in divorce rates in Indonesia since democratic reforms were introduced more than 10 years ago after the fall of autocratic president Suharto, the ministry of religious affairs said Thursday. The divorce rate has increased steadily every year during the past decade and, during last year, 10 in 100 marriages ended in divorce, the ministry said in a news release posted on its website.

January 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Saudi Arabia's efforts to broker peace between Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif seem to have come to naught as the duo and their parties continue to take pot shots at each other. In the Saudi way of thinking, Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (Nawaz) should stay together for at least the next 18 months till the country's political scenario stabilised.