Bahrain’s first Olympic track and field gold medalist, an Italian cycling silver medalist and a prominent German cyclist are among the six athletes caught for blood doping in retests of their Beijing samples.

Brawn GP’s Jenson Button has won the Bahrain Grand Prix, giving the Briton his third win in four Formula One races this year.

Kenya-born Khalid Yaseen of Bahrain won the rain-soaked Madrid Marathon on Sunday, finishing in 2 hours, 14 minutes, 31 seconds.

The skipper of an American nuclear submarine that collided with another U.S. Navy vessel at the mouth of the Persian Gulf last month has been relieved of command, the Navy announced Tuesday.

The officer in charge of an American nuclear submarine that collided with another U.S. Navy vessel at the mouth of the Persian Gulf last month has been relieved of command.

Riot police in the capital of Bahrain used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters angry with perceived government discrimination against the Shiite majority.

Police fired tear gas at dozens of rioters in Bahrain on Tuesday as the public prosecutor charged three Shiite Muslim activists with promoting a coup.

A leading Shiite human rights activist in Bahrain said he was summoned Friday by Bahrain’s state prosecutors on suspicion of inciting against the kingdom’s Sunni rulers.

Kuwait’s biggest investment bank on Thursday said it had defaulted on the majority of its debt while Bahrain’s two biggest commercial banks saw their ratings outlook downgraded, as the global financial meltdown pummeled an oil-rich Gulf Arab region that m

Bahrain’s sovereign rating outlook has been downgraded to negative by a leading investor’s service.