1.   A British engineer was killed and his wife was injured on Friday when their car blew up on a busy commercial street in the heart of the Saudi capital.

2.   Every scene of dead civilians in Afghanistan serves as a recruitment tool, said Ahmed Tuweijri, a member of the Consultative Council in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.

3.   Talks resume in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, this month between the Saudi national airline, Saudia, and representatives of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

4.   The current crisis has caught the United States without a seasoned ambassador in the Saudi capital.

5.   The largely ceremonial Israeli state president, Moshe Katzav, said on Monday that he was ready to go to the Saudi capital of Riyadh to pursue the initiative.

6.   The largely ceremonial Israeli president, Moshe Katzav, declared that he was ready to go to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to pursue the plan.

7.   The Saudis had confessed to involvement in a separate bombing last year in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in which five Americans were killed.

8.   The six Gulf Cooperation Council countries plan to meet in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Sunday to try to present a united front.

9.   Their target last November was an American-run military training center in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.

10.   TWA has a lucrative route into the Saudi capital of Riyadh, and the Saudi government controls which US airlines can fly into the country.