Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
MANAMA: The Middle East Museum Management (MEMMS) is the first in a series of regional museum seminars that the British Council Middle East is planning to run over the next two years.
MANAMA: The International Drag Racing Festival, one of the most popular events on the BIC calendar, is due to make an explosive getaway on the weekend of October 26-27.
MANAMA: Sudhir Krishnan of the Indian School, Bahrain, has a different approach to teaching.
● “It was real fun. He used to teach and he used make everyone actively participate.
What kind of a man would force his family of 14 to live homeless on the street for seven months when he is more than capable of supporting them and putting a roof over their heads?
I have to admit there was much sniggering around the GW water cooler when we first read the story about the man who had ruptured his intestine thanks to a ‘prank’... A prank indeed!
MANAMA: Dessange have changed their opening times for Ramadan to suit everyone’s health and beauty needs.
It seems that at least five people a month are dying because there aren’t enough beds in the ICU of Bahrain’s main hospital.
It’s gratifying to see that the government has started random checks at companies to make sure they are complying with the law and paying salaries through the bank.
More on the homeless front and this time the law is to blame. A Bahraini woman and her three children are without a roof over their heads after a court granted the family house to her husband after a divorce.
Damian D’Costa
DJ
The death of Luisel Ramos during Uruguay’s fashion week has caused a growing debate over stick-thin models on the catwalk as it has been revealed that she had been fasting for days.
Chicago: Iva Toguri D’Aquino, the American woman popularly known as Tokyo Rose who was convicted and later cleared of making propaganda radio broadcasts for the Japanese during the Second World War, has died in Chicago of natural causes, aged 90.
LOS ANGELES: It’s a film executive’s nightmare. You need to market a $50m blockbuster, but can’t mention the biggest Hollywood name behind the project, especially when that A-list star has become infamous for drunken driving and mouthing anti-semitic comments.
