For the Record
Tahiti airfare: In the Feb. 15 Travel section, an article about a special $997 round-trip airfare on Air Tahiti Nui from LAX to Papeete, Tahiti, said that departures after March 31 cost $1,000 more.
Feb. 18, 2015
World & Nation
Crown Prince Nayif ibn Abdulaziz, head of Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry, dies at 78
June 16, 2012
California
A California court Friday threw up a roadblock to the vast compound a Saudi Arabian prince hopes to build in Benedict Canyon, a project opposed by the billionaires next door and hundreds of residents nearby.
Feb. 16, 2015
Saudi Arabia’s newly ascended King Salman buried his predecessor, King Abdullah, on Friday, then moved quickly at a time of regional turmoil to allay fear of a looming power struggle among hundreds of princes in the next generation of the House of Saud.
Jan. 23, 2015
Nayif was an authoritarian who backed puritanical Wahabi clerics and cracked down on political dissent. He was an ally with the U.S. against Al Qaeda.
The death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah at the age of 90 on Thursday brings to power his half-brother, a former governor of Riyadh who has warned that democracy can only come to the conservative desert kingdom at a gradual pace.
Jan. 22, 2015
Saudi prince will redraw plans for housing compound in Benedict Canyon
April 8, 2011
Obituaries
As the leader of a conservative family dynasty of tremendous wealth and extraordinary power, King Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud was charged with steering the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia through an unprecedented period of cultural upheaval, regional strife and economic challenge.
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, a playboy-turned-statesman who led his desert kingdom into a controversial military alliance with the United States that produced a violent backlash by Islamic fundamentalists, died Monday after a long illness, the Saudi royal court announced.
Aug. 2, 2005