Bahraini police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters marching toward the landmark Pearl Square in the country’s capital, two days after authorities lifted emergency rule.

The Bahrain Grand Prix has returned to this year’s Formula One calendar after a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Bahrain today.

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.

Soldiers and riot police used tear gas and armoured vehicles to expel hundreds of protesters from a landmark square in Bahrain’s capital.

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 king has declared a three-month state of emergency and gave the country’s military chief wide authority to battle a Shi’ite-led protest movement that has threatened the Sunni monarchy and drawn in forces from around the Gulf.

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.

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

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.

Bahrain's king ousted four Cabinet members today as a prominent opposition leader returned from exile and urged the country's rulers to back up reform promises with action.

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

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

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone is due to hold talks with the crown prince of Bahrain later today over whether next month’s grand prix will go ahead.

The streets of Bahrain were calmer today as violent protests were exchanged for political haggling over demands the monarchy give up its near-absolute control.

Security forces in Libya and Yemen fired on pro-democracy demonstrators as the two hardline regimes struck back against the wave of protests that has already toppled autocrats in Egypt and Tunisia.

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.

Bahrain's Shiite opposition has rejected any dialogue with the Gulf kingdom's Sunni royal family until "tanks are off the streets" and the army stops "shooting at peaceful protesters".

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.

Thousands of mourners have called for the downfall of Bahrain’s ruling monarchy as funerals begin for the victims of the security forces’ attack on pro-reform protesters.

Thousands of people have ignored the military crackdown in Bahrain to gather for anti-government protests today.

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.

Bahrain riot police firing tear gas and wielding clubs stormed a landmark square occupied by anti-government protesters early today, driving out demonstrators and destroying the makeshift encampment that became the hub for demands to bring sweeping political changes to the kingdom.

Protesters demanding sweeping political reforms from Bahrain’s rulers held their ground in an Egypt-style occupation of the capital’s landmark square today, calling for a third day of demonstrations.

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.