Instagram stars, former Victoria's Secret models, and Hollywood actors travel to Riyadh for three-day musical extravaganza

Surge in national oil company's share price vaults Saudi Arabia's stock market into seventh place among world's largest exchanges

Some 5 million Saudis, or one-quarter of the country's citizens, drop $13b to buy the 1.5% of the kingdom's crown jewel put up for sale on Wednesday

Al-Ahsa, a border desert oasis where shoppers from Qatar once kept the local economy humming, hopeful for thaw after Riyadh-led bloc accused Doha of backing radical Islamists

Move is latest government measure to upend a major hallmark of conservative restrictions in place for decades

Vanity Fair expose of the company's collapse shows how he increasingly saw himself as a global leader who partnered with Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman

Hotly awaited offering of Saudi oil behemoth worth at least $24 billion, scaled down from original plans but could still rival biggest listing in history

'Feminism is not criminalized,' says kingdom's Human Rights Commission; retracted video also decried homosexuality and atheism, which are both punishable by death

Kingdom hopes to raise billions with offer of sliver of Aramco, as it seeks to reassure investors over its valuation and potential hazards of future attacks, geopolitical risk

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aiming for a very optimistic $2 trillion valuation to fund ambitious redevelopment plans in kingdom