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Naval forces from 13 countries, including the six GCC states and Iraq, are due to conclude week-long military exercises today in the Arabian Gulf.

About 500 hundred Asian workers at a garment factory in Bahrain went on the rampage on Saturday night after one of their colleagues committed suicide.

The Iraqi Navy is taking part in a coalition exercise, working with naval forces from the six GCC countries, for the first time in more than three decades.

Fire destroyed one of Bahrain’s main food and electrical appliances import warehouses yesterday morning.

Aboard USS Mason US-led coalition naval forces In Arabian Gulf searched hundreds of vessels last year to stop terrorists from getting into the region by sea, officials said.

Bahrain's Ministry of Information has approved the establishment of an independent Foreign Press Club, journalists said yesterday.

Three civil rights groups staged a demonstration at the Public Prosecution building here yesterday calling for judicial reforms and changes in the administration, accusing the judiciary of being “prejudiced against women”.

A group of University of Bahrain students gathered in front of the Kuwaiti embassy to demand an investigation into the death of their friend who was shot dead during a gun battle between the police and militants in Kuwait last week.

Bahrainis without jobs formed their own national committee this week seeking suitable work as well as compensation for unemployment.

A Bahraini mother has given birth to quintuplets, two boys and three girls, on Tuesday at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, medical sources told Gulf News.

Bahrain's Works and Housing Minister Fahmi Al Joder faces questioning by parliament over the deteriorating housing situation in Dair village, an MP said.

A stern warning was issued to the labour agencies and the customs officials in the GCC states by human rights activists against the possibility of orphaned children from the tsunami-struck areas being smuggled into the region as housemaids.