A unified memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed to co-ordinate and unify national efforts to support Bahraini women in humanitarian situations. This is part of ongoing efforts in Bahrain ...

The slow lane for westbound traffic on Government Avenue in Manama will be closed for storm water drainage work, the Works Ministry announced yesterday. One lane will be provided for traffic, it added ...

The body of a 36-year-old Bahraini man was recovered from the sea near King Fahad Causeway by the Coastguard and Police Aviation yesterday. Initial reports indicated that the man died while practising ...

The United Nations says the minimum emergency level of water consumption per person is 15 litres a day for drinking, cooking, cleaning and washing. Average daily domestic consumption in Israel is 165 ...

Work has started on Bahrain’s first solar power plant to generate electricity, with a planned production capacity of up to 150 megawatts, the Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) announced yesterday.

A shop owner who opened pesticide and fertiliser containers and repackaged them without official approval has been fined BD2,200 by the Lower Criminal Court. The man, whose age and nationality were ...

A massive wildfire that has scorched through 16,000 hectares of forest and villages in southern France since Tuesday was spreading more slowly yesterday but was still not under control, officials said ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel intends to take military control of all of Gaza, despite intensifying criticism at home and abroad over the devastating almost ...

The Shaikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al Khalifa Pearl Diving Competition kicks off today as part of the eighth edition of the Nasser bin Hamad Marine Heritage Season. The contest will be held at the Heyr ...

US President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs on imports from dozens of countries kicked in yesterday, raising the average US import duty to its highest in a century and leaving major trade partners such ...

FOOTBALL – BARCELONA stripped Marc-Andre ter Stegen of the captaincy yesterday as a feud escalated between the Germany goalkeeper and the club over his injury status amid the Catalans’ attempts to ...

FOOTBALL – TOTTENHAM Hotspur midfielder James Maddison will have surgery after injuring his anterior cruciate knee ligament, the Premier League club said yesterday. Maddison suffered the injury during ...