ArabNews is the leading English language source of news presented from an Arab perspective. It has been published by the Saudi Research & Publishing Company since 1975, and is currently available as both a daily newspaper and a website at http://www.arabnews.com/. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are an originally Arabian ethnicity widespread in the Middle East and North Africa. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

The printed version of the ArabNews is distributed in Bahrain, Europe, Kuwait, the Near East, North Africa, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Worldwide circulation, as of 1998, is 51,768 issues. A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... The Near East is a term commonly used by archaeologists and historians, less commonly by journalists and commentators, to refer to the region encompassing the Levant (modern Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon), Anatolia (modern Turkey), Mesopotamia (Iraq and eastern Syria), and the Iranian Plateau (Iran). ... North Africa is a region generally considered to include: Algeria Egypt Libya Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara The Canary Islands, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Azores and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa, though they do not share a common culture with North Africa. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...