The Daily Populous

A dual citizen of Saudi Arabia and the United States had been imprisoned in the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh for about a week when he heard a knock on his door.

Guards dragged Walid Fitaihi, a Harvard-trained physician, to another room, according to a friend who took down the prisoner’s detailed account of his treatment.

Dr. Fitaihi told the friend he was slapped, blindfolded, stripped to his underwear and bound to a chair. »

Or that she holds dominion over British swans and can fire the entire Australian government?.

"Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves," goes a classic British song - and this rule extends beneath the waves, too.

In 1975, for example, the Queen's representative in the country at the time, Gov. Gen. Sir John Kerr, fired the prime minister in response to a government shutdown. »

- A man whose car was stranded in central Oregon snow for five days survived by eating taco sauce packets and starting the engine periodically to warm up.

He told his rescuers he and his dog, Ally, became stuck in deep snow on a U.S. Forest Service road later that same day.

In response to a friend's Facebook comment about how he ate three Taco Bell hot sauce packets during the ordeal, he joked: "Taco Bell fire sauce saves lives!". »

Google has rejected calls to remove a Saudi government app which offers a tool for men to control where women travel.

Google has declined to remove from its app store a Saudi government app which lets men track women and control where they travel, on the grounds that it meets all their terms and conditions.

Read more: Saudi Arabia tried to justify its app that lets men control where women travel amid a firestorm of criticism. »