The UN Secretary General today demanded that Syria’s president stop killing his own people, saying the revolutions of the Arab Spring show that people will no longer accept tyranny.

Bahrain’s king said today that that his tiny Gulf kingdom is ready to send a naval force to help safeguard Iraqi territorial waters, if asked by the new Iraqi government, the official Bahrain News Agency reported.

BAHRAINIS turned out in large numbers yesterday for the first national elections in a Gulf Arab state allowing women to vote and run for office.

Voters have cast ballots in Bahrain’s first election for representative bodies in nearly 30 years, marking another step in the Gulf nation’s transformation from absolute monarchy to democracy - and the first time Bahraini women were allowed to vote and run for office.