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The star of Gossip Girl, Ed Westwick, has married actress Amy Jackson in a ceremony that took place in Amalfi, Italy, last weekend.

The luxury wedding was attended by celebrities such as Kelly Rutherford and Mohammed Al Turki, to whom the couple owes their introduction.

Saudi Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud was photographed riding a bicycle on the streets of the Aegean province of Muğla's Bodrum during his holiday.

The prince and his family were enjoying the first day of their luxury holiday in the Turkish resort.

A numbers of bodyguards with bicycles accompanied the prince as he toured Bodrum's Türkbükü area on his bicycle.   

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in the Saudi city of Jeddah on July 23 on the first leg of his Gulf tour, which will also include Kuwait and Qatar.

Erdoğan was greeted by a number of Saudi officials upon his arrival at the King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud International Airport in Jeddah.

Saudi Arabia has named an air force pilot son of King Salman as ambassador to its major ally Washington, with which ties are improving under President Donald Trump.

The change came among a series of orders issued by the king, who shuffled his cabinet, restored civil service benefits, and replaced the head of the army which for two years has been fighting rebels  n neighboring Yemen.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud was welcomed by a convoy of luxury cars on Nov. 12 to attend the G-20 Summit on Nov. 15-16 in Antalya, where 546 rooms have been booked for him.

A Turkish defense systems producer has signed a tripartite agreement with two Saudi companies.

Saudi Arabia's new King Salman ordered a lavish payout to all state employees on Jan. 30 and reshuffled some top government jobs while keeping in place the oil, foreign, finance, defence and interior ministers.
   

Turkey has declared Jan. 24 a day of national mourning for Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who passed away early on Friday at the age of about 90.

"We declare Saturday, Jan. 24 a day of national mourning for Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz," the Turkish Prime Ministry said in a statement issued Jan. 23.

Saudi Arabia buried King Abdullah Friday as foreign leaders gathered in the capital for the funeral of the ruler of the world's top oil exporter and the spiritual home of Islam.
      
Abdullah, a cautious reformer who led his kingdom through a turbulent decade in a region shaken by the Arab Spring uprisings and Islamic extremism, died early Friday aged about 90.
      

Foreign leaders gathered in a cavernous mosque in the Saudi Arabian capital on Jan. 23 for the funeral of King Abdullah.
      
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the leaders of Sudan and Ethiopia joined Gulf rulers for the funeral prayer at Riyadh's Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque.