RESIDENTS are being warned to beware of a common cactus-like plant growing in Bahrain after an expat businessman was left needing emergency hospital treatment after he was covered in a mist of poisonous sap.
The annual St Christopher’s School Art Exhibition, staged at the senior school campus in Isa Town, opens its doors to the public today to showcase the students’ array of creative skills and bold prints.
A research programme has been launched that should eventually allow all cancer patients to have access to the kind of genetic analysis that led Hollywood star Angelina Jolie to decide to undergo a double mastectomy, writes Kate Kelland.
Nazek Al Sabbagh, founder of home-grown label Zari O’Breesam, organised a fashion show in Manama to raise funds for the Children & Mothers Welfare Society.
YOUNG gymnasts in Bahrain have been boosted this week by the appearance of celebrated British Olympian Bill McLoughlin to provide specialist coaching ahead of a regional competition in Dubai.
Passions Restaurant and Lounge may have taken three years to create but it was well worth the wait. The fantastic wallet-friendly restaurant serves up five-star intercontinental food in a serene environment.
There’s a Hollywood saying that a good book makes a bad film … although I have never read The Great Gatsby, it must have been a potboiler because not only did it make a terrific film, I left the theatre feeling reinvigorated.
TOMORROW’S Memorial tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin, in the US state of Ohio, will feature one of the season’s strongest fields with the world’s top six players all taking part in the PGA Tour event hosted by veteran Jack Nicklaus.
