NFL practices this time of year are designed for maximum sweat production. Coaches are trying to build up stamina and endurance. Players push themselves to the limit, in pursuit of jobs and starting spots. It's also really, really hot.

(AP)  A 24-year-old Arab American from Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown. 
Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., won the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip after strutting confidently in an orange and gold bikini, wearing a strapless white gown that resembled a wedding dress and saying health insurance should cover birth control pills. 
 

DEARBORN, Mich. – Mariam Wehbe learned about a program offering home-delivered meals made according to Islamic law at a good time – poor health made cooking impossible and a grandson who helps her had to cut back to devote more time to school.

JEDDAH: A fully-fledged tourist city is being developed in the eastern coastal city of Al-Oqair at a total cost of SR50 billion.

According to Prince Sultan bin Salman, chairman of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has given the go-ahead to implement the project, which will change the face of Al-Ahsa region.

At least six persons were found utterly burnt and forty were reported missing, yesterday here in Jubail, due to a fire that erupted in a housing compound belonging to a contract company working for Saudi ARAMCO. It is estimated that the fire broke out at half past nine based on a reported call citing the incident then and calling for firefighters. The housing area size is estimated to be around 20000 square meter. It is said that the fire took place exactly in the Saudi residential area whose capacity is approximately 500 residential units. Once the fire was brought under control, six unidentified bodies were found completely charred and forty were reported missing. The search and rescue is still in progress.