Bernie Ecclestone turned the British Grand Prix into roadkill yesterday, squashing it without sentiment in his haste to do mega-deals with governments in the oil-rich Arab nations and Far East. If the Tower of London was still trading, he would be in it, yet the decision to drop Silverstone is entirely consistent with the ruthlessness …

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Every time I go to Dubai, which is averaging about once or twice a month now, I effing buy stuff unintentionally ;). Mostly things that can fit in my backpack without too much trouble, and this turned into a habit. But no matter, I enjoy the exercise! I normally buy stuff at the airport as …

“First they banned dolls, then they banned stuffed toys and now this. I don’t know where all this will stop,” said Turki, a 20-year-old student in Riyadh who did not want to give his full name and who owns a cell phone camera he bought locally. Last December, the Interior Ministry announced a ban on …

Following on from the news of the arrest of a human rights activist a few days ago, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has now permanently closed the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, thus penalising a whole organisation for the public censure of one of its directors of the government and the prime minister. …