Ferrari suffered a weekend to forget in the stifling heat of the Bahrain desert on Sunday when they failed to score a point on the debut of their new F2005 car in the Bahrain Grand Prix. It was the first time they had failed to score a point in 33 races stretching back two years to April 2003.
World championship leader Fernando Alonso set a sizzling pace in the roasting desert heat in Manama on Saturday to claim the fastest time in first qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix. World champion Michael Schumacher prepared the new Ferrari for its race debut on Sunday by finishing third fastest.
A nationwide power failure on Monday left Bahrainis snarled in rush-hour traffic and without air conditioning on a day when temperatures reached the mid-fifties degrees Celsius. The United States Navy switched to generator power. A spokesperson for the electricity department blamed a ”technical fault”.
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/ 13 December 2003
A television company is to broadcast a Big Brother-style reality television show for Arab countries in which young women compete to win an arranged marriage. The eight women chosen will live together in a house watched over by TV cameras.