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Riyadh Air aims to take on award-winning rivals Emirates and Qatar Airways with its pointy-end offerings.

New rival for Emirates and Qatar Airways unveils its luxurious cabins

Riyadh Air is set to take off at the end of this year with cabins to rival the best in the sky. Just don’t expect to be served champagne on board.

  • Leen Al-Rashdan

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Ben Stokes wanted the Test Championship points system changed.

Cricket’s future was up for debate. Here’s what was decided

England wanted to rejig the points system for the world Test championship, but cricket chiefs had a raft of other proposals on the agenda at meetings in Zimbabwe.

  • Daniel Brettig
Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammad bin Salman.

Saudi Arabia very safe for women, says Liberal candidate who does business there

Amnesty International continues to raise the alarm about Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship laws, which give men authority over women in most aspects of life in the kingdom.

  • Angus Delaney and Paul Sakkal
Traffic is terrible in Riyadh.

I did a women-only trip in one of the world’s most notorious countries

It’s one of the world’s most patriarchal societies, but I had a behind-the-scenes look at the secret lives of women here.

  • Katrina Lobley
Sam Konstas in front of a huge MCG crowd.

Two Test divisions, international windows, and India sharing their riches: Is this cricket’s future?

A report commissioned by the World Cricketers’ Association calls for a complete reshaping of international and franchise cricket to complement one another.

  • Daniel Brettig
England’s Harry Brook is taking a break from playing in the IPL.

‘No scope or demand’: England opposed to Saudi T20 league

English cricket has raised instant opposition to an Australian proposal for a global Twenty20 league backed by Saudi Arabia, claiming there is “no scope or demand for such an idea”.

  • Daniel Brettig
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A Saudi-backed global T20 cricket league would be the biggest development in the game in decades.

Grand slam of cricket: Secret plan hatched for new Saudi-backed T20 league

A global Twenty20 league bankrolled by the oil-rich state has been devised by an influential Australian cricket figure to address cricket’s most pressing issues.

  • Chris Barrett
As Cyclone Alfred, seen here from space, bore down in Australia, oil executives gathered in Houston, Texas.

Their profit, our cost: Should fossil fuel companies pay for climate disasters?

As climate change bites and insurance costs increase, a growing chorus is demanding that fossil fuel companies start paying for the chaos.

  • Nick O'Malley
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with the media on his military airplane as he flies to Jeddah.

Rubio says Ukraine may need to do ‘difficult things’ to get peace deal

US could resume sending military aid and intelligence tomorrow if crunch talks in Saudi Arabia go well, US secretary of state says.

  • Rob Harris
Drill, baby, drill: US President Donald Trump’s policies are weighing on the oil price.

More than ‘a little disturbance’: Trump and OPEC are sinking the oil price

This week, OPEC+ did what Donald Trump has demanded and announced it would start increasing production, pushing oil prices down to three-year lows. Trump may get more than he bargained for.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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