SAUDI ARABIA OUSTS lONGTIME OIl MINISTER
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has replaced its Oil Minister as part of ongoing Government shakeup. A royal decree on Saturday announced that Ali al-Naimi has been replaced by Health Minister and Saudi Aramco board chairman Khaled al-Falih. Al-Naimi has long been a pillar of Saudi oil policy, leading the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources since 1995.
US SENDS TROOPS TO YEMEN
Washington: The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time it has deployed US troops to Yemen since the country’s collapse last year to bolster Government and Arab coalition forces battling Al-Qaeda.
PlANT-EATING MARINE REPTIlE FOUND
Chicago: A bizarre crocodile-sized ‘hammerhead’ creature, that lived 242 million years ago in what today is China may have been the earliest known example of a plant-eating marine reptile, researchers have said.