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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billionaire Apple chief executive Tim Cook presented Donald Trump with a personalised gift boasting a 24-karat gold base as the tech giant wooed the president at the White House.

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 ...

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 ...

It was Kane’s second game against Spurs - he featured in a friendly at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last year - since his £86.4m move in 2023. The 32-year-old is Spurs’ all-time top scorer with 280 goals ...

WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Dr Hanan Balkhy yesterday visited the Royal Medical Services (RMS), where she was received by its Commander Brigadier General Dr Shaikh Fahad bin ...

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 ...