Vast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in Bahrain's desert wasteland, under an ambitious proposal from a team of architects and engineers.
Bahrain's IT market is expected to hit $400 million (BD151 million) by 2012, according to a new report, as the kingdom continues to diversify its economy.
Never fans of understatement, the presenters of the motoring TV programme Top Gear charged across London's Tower Bridge in a stretched version of an armoured personnel carrier to launch a £20 million ($36 million) world tour that will act as a template for other BBC "superbrands" to be taken on the road.
