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BRING IT ON!

BRING IT ON!

PLANS are motoring on to make this year's Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix an even bigger community event as "our race" becomes the official theme of ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
My New Year resolutions

My New Year resolutions

For Bahraini Gulf Saatchi and Saatchi chief executive and head of the Bahrain chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA), Khamis ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Close encounters that had a big impact on Khulood's view of life

Close encounters that had a big impact on Khulood's view of life

YOUNG banker Khulood Ebrahim has today spoken of her amazing encounter with some of the world's most charismatic leaders on a course which has cha ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Bend it or
 keep it ?

Bend it or keep it ?

DO you have trouble keeping your resolutions? Does your determination to get fit or write that novel wane after just a few weeks of effort?

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January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Bilawal vows to follow democratic path for revenge

Bilawal vows to follow democratic path for revenge

Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal has been catapulted into the maelstrom of Pakistani politics, appointed leader of her party just three d ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Finding the culprits ...

Finding the culprits ...

Who is the man blamed by Pakistan's government for Bhutto's murder?

Baitullah Mehsud, 34, is the leader of a group of jihadist militants ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Shock and dismay

Shock and dismay

THE Pakistan Embassy in Bahrain has opened a condolence book to mark the death of the former prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Hats off to all loving parents

Hats off to all loving parents

LAST week I was watching a late re-run of CNN's most touching documentary show yet. It was titled: "rescuing Youssif", and what a show it was.

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Saving
Sadeesha

Saving Sadeesha

The Sri Lankan community in Bahrain is campaigning to help a school girl suffering from a life-threatening condition by covering the cost of a ser ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Who is in your wallet or on your phone?

Who is in your wallet or on your phone?

Hard cash and plastic money, driving licences and sales receipts ... wallets contain all sorts. But who do you carry in your wallet or on your mob ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Rioters slammed

Rioters slammed

More than 1,500 people demonstrated in Isa Town to condemn the riots and acts of sabotage during the National Day and Eid Al Adha holidays.

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January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Crisis management

Crisis management

AROUND 1,200 personnel assigned to US Naval Support Activity Bahrain and the kingdom's ministries of interior, defence and health conducted a joi ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
On the starting grid at BIC as Formula One fever sets in

On the starting grid at BIC as Formula One fever sets in

THIS year's Formula One race will be the third round of the FIA Formula One World Championship - following Australia and Malaysia - and the Bahrai ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Hand luggage limit to go

Hand luggage limit to go

Cabin baggage restrictions will be lifted at Heathrow Airport. Passengers will be allowed to carry more than one piece of hand luggage through sec ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Top airline award for BA

Top airline award for BA

British Airways - the UK's flagship carrier which operates 55 weekly flights from the GCC to London Heathrow - has been awarded 'World's Leading A ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Middle East air travel is all set to take off

Middle East air travel is all set to take off

AS Bahrain Air, the baby of the Middle East's aviation industry prepares for take-off, one of its main rivals reckons the sector is poised for sig ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Bahrain going 'green'

Bahrain going 'green'

THREE Bahraini teenagers have inspired a multinational giant to invest in a major environmental campaign which aims to clean-up the island with su ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Local News
Waiting in the wings for BA's new terminal

Waiting in the wings for BA's new terminal

A NEW era in air travel for people travelling from Bahrain to London is just a few weeks away thanks to British Airways' exclusive new home at Hea ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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The Whisperer
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No title specified

The Bahrain banker's pants which mysteriously appeared on the living room chandeliers of a motor company executive's home seem to have taken on a ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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TV Weeekly
Desperate Housewives back in a blaze of glory - Showtime

Desperate Housewives back in a blaze of glory - Showtime

The sizzling ladies of hottest award-winning TV series Desperate Housewives are back for Season 4 in what promises to be one hell of a day in the ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Sport
Wishful thinking for Toon fans

Wishful thinking for Toon fans

Football is so unquestionably imbedded into English culture that it is and has always been surrounded by myth and legend.

This evolves ar ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Sport
A to Z of a sporting year

A to Z of a sporting year

The year 2007 had its share of the good (like Iraq's Asian Cup soccer triumph), substantial portions of the bad (betting, doping, match-fixing et ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Sport
Padilla snatches title

Padilla snatches title

Louis Padilla edged out Mohammed Idris by the narrowest of margins to lift the title in the Bahrain Cross Island race.

The athlete are p ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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TV Weeekly
Watch out for it: Medium - new drama on Dubai One

Watch out for it: Medium - new drama on Dubai One

Dubai One have given viewers yet another reason to stay home with the US drama Medium which kicked off on Christmas Day at 1.30pm.

Medium ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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TV Weeekly
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No title specified

wednesday (Jan 2). Documentary - China Circus Elite on NGC at 8pm

At the Wuqiao School of Acrobatic Arts in the heart of China, children ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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Sport
English cricket must get back to basics before New Zealand tour

English cricket must get back to basics before New Zealand tour

Losing is becoming a habit for English cricket in recent times.

A series of defeats has seen England drop to fifth from a lofty second in ...

January 2 - 8, 2008
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