MANAMA Defending triple world champion Sebastian Vettel extended his lead in this year's title race on Sunday when he claimed an impressive victory for Red Bull in an incident-filled Bahrain Grand Prix. The race finished without any disruption amid tight security and despite earlier clashes between ...

MANAMA German Nico Rosberg saluted his Mercedes team for their overnight work on improving his car enough to land him pole position on Saturday for Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix.The 27-year-old - whose sole win came in last year's China Grand Prix - secured the Mercedes team's second successive pole ...

MANAMA Finland's Kimi Raikkonen topped the times for Lotus in Friday afternoon's second free practice session for this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, just ahead of motivated Mark Webber and leaving Lewis Hamilton looking to make up ground.Driving with typical aggression and aplomb, the "Ice Man" ...

DUBAI  - A Bahraini youth opposition group on Monday said it blew up a car in Manama overnight in an incident the authorities blamed on a "terrorist group" just days ahead of the country's Formula One Grand Prix. There were no casualties in the blast and no damage other than to the car, police ...

DUBAI -Bahrain has been rounding up pro-democracy activists ahead of its controversial staging of the April 21 Formula One Grand Prix two years after a bloody crackdown, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. Plainclothes police officers have arrested 20 people so far in raids in towns around ...

DUBAI - Bahrain's national dialogue, aimed at resolving the political deadlock in the kingdom, is in trouble due to major disagreements between the government and the Shia-led opposition, participants said Monday. The opposition insists that representatives of the king should join the talks due to ...

MANAMA - Clashes broke out on Saturday at the funeral in Bahrain of a teenager killed in protests marking the second anniversary of a Shia-led uprising, with police using teargas against mourners, witnesses said.The security forces blocked access to Hussein al-Jaziri's funeral in the Shia-populated ...

MANAMA  - Bahrain’s highest appeals court on Monday upheld prison terms for 13 prominent activists on charges of plotting to overthrow the monarchy, lawyers said, in a verdict that sparked protests. Hours after the Court of Cassation’s ruling, hundreds gathered in the Shiite ...

DUBAI  - A Bahraini appeals court on Wednesday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of two Shia convicted of killing two policemen during last year's unrest, lawyers said. Ali Abdullah Hasan al-Singace and Abdul Aziz Hussein, who were sentenced by a special Bahraini court in May ...

DUBAI- Thousands of protesters in Bahrain Saturday demanded a transition government and the removal of Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, who has been premier since 1974, witnesses said.They said the demonstrators marched in the village of Diya near the capital Manama, chanting ...

MANAMA  - Bahrain's crown prince has made a renewed appeal for dialogue to end the political impasse in the Gulf kingdom, a call welcomed by the Shiite-led opposition, despite no end in sight to violent protests. Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, widely viewed as a moderate member of the ...

DUBAI  - A Bahraini court cut on Tuesday the jail terms against rights activist Nabeel Rajab, who is behind bars for taking part in anti-regime protests, from a total of three years to two, lawyers said.The appeals court reduced two jail sentences in cases involving attendance at unauthorised ...

DUBAI  - A Bahraini court on Monday sentenced the daughter of prominent opposition activist Hadi al-Khawaja to one month in jail for taking part in an unauthorised demonstration, her lawyer said. Zainab al-Khawaja, the eldest of the Shia rights activist’s daughters, was found guilty of ...

DUBAI (AFP) - Bahrain on Tuesday banned all protests and gatherings to ensure “security is maintained”, after a spate of clashes between Shia-led demonstrators and security forces in the Sunni-ruled country.The Gulf state has been shaken by unrest since its forces in March last year ...

DUBAI - A Bahraini policeman has died from severe burns after a “terrorist” attack in April in a village close to Manama, the authorities said on Friday. The policeman “succumbed to his injuries” on Thursday after being “sent abroad to receive treatment for his ...

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that Pakistan attaches great importance and keen to strengthen its relations with the Kingdom of Bahrain. During his meeting with King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah on the sidelines of Asian Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit on Wednesday, the ...

DUBAI  - Bahrain’s King Hamad said at the opening of parliament on Sunday that the government was open to dialogue with the opposition and also urged the body to criminalise “violence.” “The door to talks remains open to everybody,” he said in a speech to MPs, ...

DUBAI - Bahraini Shiite rights activist Nabeel Rajab has gone on hunger strike, a local rights group said Saturday, just two days after he was briefly released from jail to attend his mother's funeral. Rajab, 48, who is serving a three-year sentence for participating in illegal demonstrations, was ...

GENEVA (AFP) - Bahrain said Wednesday it accepted “90 percent” of reforms urged by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in the wake of a popular uprising, amid US criticism that the kingdom was dragging its feet.“The government of Bahrain is pleased to fully accept 145 (out of 176 ...

DUBAI - Bahrain has denied entry to a member of the European parliament who the opposition said wanted to check on the situation of jailed hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and other political prisoners. Ana Gomes, who arrived in Bahrain on Sunday, "was denied an upon-arrival visa and was ...

SHANGHAI  - The Bahrain Grand Prix will go ahead next week as planned, Formula One bosses declared on Friday, despite fears it could be targeted by violent anti-government demonstrations.The sport's governing body, the FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile), and commercial rights ...

SHANGHAI - Formula One looks set to come under fresh pressure to shelve Bahrain's grand prix this week in China, where preparations have been rocked by ongoing protests and a hunger strike in the desert state.As teams and officials gather at Shanghai International Circuit, the focus is on events ...

DUBAI  - Bahrain’s Shiite-ruled opposition expressed on Monday readiness for dialogue with authorities to end the political deadlock in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, but demanded a referendum on the outcome. The five main opposition associations, led by the major Shiite formation, Al-Wefaq, ...

LONDON - Bahrain and Belarus have been added to Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of ‘enemies of the internet’. They join 10 other nations on the campaign group’s register of states that restrict net access, filter content and imprison bloggers.India and Kazakhstan have ...

MANAMA  - Tens of thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated outside the capital Manama on Friday to demand urgent political reforms, a year after the Gulf Arab state crushed an uprising, witnesses said.The protestors began marching along a highway near Manama in response to a call from leading ...

ALA’A SHEHABILast March, after the Bahraini regime had dramatically destroyed the Pearl monument in Manama it triumphantly screened pictures of its actions on state TV: a clear message to protesters who had dared challenge its authority by gathering there. The monument became part of the ...

PAKISTAN Institute of Fashion and Design (PIFD), is delighted to exhibit the work of its fashion design graduates at the Cultural Hall in Bahrain on 28th of this month. The entire collection process from development of design concepts to construction of garments is done by students themselves.The ...

LONDON  - One of Queen Elizabeth II’s daughters-in-law was criticised Saturday for accepting jewels from the royal family of Bahrain, which has been accused of human rights abuses.Dennis MacShane, a former junior foreign minister, said the gift to Sophie, Countess of Wessex, who is ...

RIYADH (AFP) - Gulf troops sent to back Bahraini security forces in their crackdown on Shiite-led protests are to be "redeployed" but will not withdraw completely, a Saudi official said on Tuesday. "It is normal to redeploy the Peninsula Shield force but the danger is not over yet and these forces ...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafis first political speech to the world after his people revolted against him was an advanced model of political hallucination, ranting, and raving. He tried to convince the world that the reason for what is happening in his country is that the Libyans are popping ...