Saudi Arabian News

King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, under pressure from Islamists to curb reforms, has warned local media against showing pictures of Saudi women.

"Young people are driven by emotion and the spirit, but the spirit can go astray. So I ask you to go easy on these things."



Also, Saudi Arabia has postponed plans to replace male sales staff in lingerie shops with women.

Such reforms have incurred the wrath of ultra-conservative religious leaders, such as the Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdel-Aziz al-Sheikh, who has denounced them as "steps towards immorality and hellfire".