Riot police in Bahrain fired tear gas and stun grenades today in clashes with protesters, who broke away from a funeral procession for a 17-year-old boy killed during earlier street battles with security forces in the Gulf kingdom.

A Bahrain court has overturned a conviction against a prominent human rights activist for posting alleged anti-government comments on social media, a defence lawyer said.

An 11-year-old boy accused of taking part in anti-government protests in Bahrain may remain at home but must be monitored by authorities, a court has ruled.

A Bahrain appeals court has sentenced nine medics accused of aiding Bahrain’s anti-government uprising to jail terms while setting free another nine.

Riot police in Bahrain fired tear gas and stun grenades today as tens of thousands of protesters staged the biggest anti-government demonstrations in weeks in the divided Gulf nation.

A lawyer representing Bahraini hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja says the activist will end his strike today, 110 days after he began refusing food.

Authorities in Bahrain opened an investigation today after the body of a man was found near the scene of clashes between protesters and the security forces.

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have flooded a major highway in Bahrain, demanding a halt to this weekend’s Formula One race.

Nervous shop owners closed their doors and security forces fanned out across Bahrain’s capital in attempts to quell widening unrest that threatened to overshadow the return of the Formula One Grand Prix to the Gulf kingdom.

The US navy has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear programme.

Anti-government protesters defied a ban by marching on the headquarters of Bahrain’s main opposition party, pressing ahead with their campaign for greater political and civil rights for the nation’s Shiite Muslims.

The Obama administration has brushed aside Iran’s warning to keep US aircraft carriers out of the Gulf.

A CANISTER containing powerful explosive material blew apart the front of a minibus near the British Embassy in Bahrain’s capital.

Bahrain used torture and excessive force against people arrested in crackdowns on anti-government protests, an official inquiry has found.

The harsh crackdown on anti-government protests in Bahrain has failed to silence people’s demands for greater rights, a senior Shiite cleric in the Gulf kingdom said today as thousands of opposition supporters rallied on the outskirts of the capital.

Bahrain’s biggest Shiite party today pulled out of the US-backed talks with the Gulf kingdom’s Sunni rulers, claiming the government was not serious about addressing Shiite demands for greater rights and political freedoms.

Reconciliation talks between Bahrain’s Sunni monarchy and the Shiite opposition have started for the first time since anti-government protests erupted in the Gulf kingdom, an opposition figure said.

Bahrain’s Sunni rulers have started reconciliation talks with the opposition after four months of Shiite-led protests for greater rights and harsh crackdowns on dissent in the strategic Gulf kingdom.

Bahrain has jailed eight Shiite activists accused of plotting to overthrow the state for life.

A military court in Bahrain has convicted four Shiite protesters and sentenced them to death for killing two policemen during anti-government demonstrations last month, the Gulf kingdom’s state media said.

At least six leading opposition activists have been detained in the continuing crackdown on protesters in the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain, reports say.

Soldiers and riot police in Bahrain overran a protesters’ camp, imposed a 12-hour curfew and choked off movement in this tiny island kingdom that has been rocked by a month of protests.

Troops using tear gas and armoured cars evicted hundreds of protesters from their camp in Bahrain’s capital today trying to squash the growing movement challenging the 200-year-old monarchy.

Soldiers and riot police used tear gas and armoured vehicles to drive out hundreds of anti-government protesters occupying a landmark square in Bahrain's capital, a day after emergency rule was imposed in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom.

Bahrain’s capital Manama was in lockdown today with stores closed and roads blocked by police after a Saudi-led military force arrived to help quell the uprising against the ruling monarch.

A Saudi-led military force crossed into Bahrain to prop up the monarchy in the tiny island nation against widening demonstrations, launching the first cross-border military operation to quell unrest since the Arab world’s rebellions began in December.

A parliament group has asked Bahrain’s king to impose martial law after a month of unrest which has left the tiny Gulf nation sharply divided between minority Sunni Muslims backing the ruling system and Shiites demanding sweeping changes.

Bahrain riot police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at an anti-government protest camp in the capital, eyewitnesses claimed today.

Hundreds of Shiite opposition supporters are holding a demonstration outside the US embassy in Bahrain’s capital, Manama.

Thousands of Shiite opposition supporters in Bahrain blocked the entrance to prime minister’s office but failed to disrupt a government meeting today as the campaign for reform in the strategic Gulf nation enters its third week.

Thousands of Shiite protesters in Bahrain have formed a huge human chain around the capital, Manama, as their campaign to loosen the Sunni monarchy’s grip on power in the strategic Gulf nation enters its third week.

Tens of thousands of flag-waving protesters flooded Bahrain’s capital today in a massive show of force against the embattled monarchy.

Thousands of singing and dancing protesters streamed back into Manama’s central Pearl Square today after Bahrain’s leaders withdrew tanks and riot police following a bloody crackdown by security forces in the tiny monarchy.

Bahrain has ordered its military off the square in the capital that was the heart of an uprising against the Gulf nation's rulers, a key demand by the opposition for starting a dialogue in the political crisis.

Security forces opened fire on protesters in Bahrain for a second day, wounding at least 50 people as thousands defied the government in an uprising that seeks to break the political grip of the Gulf nation’s leaders.

SOLDIERS opened fire yesterday on thousands of protesters defying a government ban and streaming toward the landmark square that had been the symbolic centre of the uprising to break the political grip of the Gulf nation’s leaders.

Security forces have fired tear gas on thousands of protest marchers in Bahrain's capital after angry calls to topple the Gulf nation's monarchy.

Bahrain’s leaders banned public gatherings and sent tanks into the streets, intensifying a brutal crackdown that killed five anti-government protesters, injured more than 200 and turned a hospital into a cauldron of anguish and rage against the monarchy.

At least four people were killed in Bahrain after riot police with tear gas and clubs drove protesters from a main square where they had demanded sweeping political change in this tiny kingdom.

Thousands of protesters poured into a main square in Bahrain’s capital today as the Arab push for change gripped the Gulf for the first time.

The revolution on the Nile raises serious questions about the stability of other Arab regimes, reports Brian Murphy from Dubai

Iran said today that the two US pilotless spy planes it claimed to have shot down were hit outside of Iran’s air space.

Iran’s supreme leader today claimed it was not trying to build nuclear weapons after a damning report by atomic watchdogs said it was actively working on a warhead.

Pirate hostages were feared at risk of a violent backlash from their captors today in the wake of the successful freeing of an American merchant captain.