Cardiff came ahead of Bern in Switzerland, Manama in Bahrain and Blantyre in Malawi.
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On 14 February 2011, peaceful protesters took over Pearl Roundabout, an iconic landmark in the capital, Manama.
Mr Rajab was arrested on 5 May at Manama airport on his return from the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
Protesters demonstrated in several villages around Manama, the nation's capital Thursday, the second anniversary of a major uprising.
Mr Mushaima was hit at close range by birdshot in the Sanabis district of the capital city Manama.
In October last year two policemen died of injuries sustained during clashes with protesters in villages outside Manama.
The Formula One teams and drivers have slunk into Manama with little fanfare.
On Sunday a car bomb blew up in the heart of the financial district in Manama, though without causing injuries.
Hours before the march, Ayatollah Sheikh Qassim criticized the push for unity during his Friday prayer sermon in Duraz village, north of Manama.
The trial has begun in Bahrain's capital, Manama, of five police officers implicated in the death in custody of a blogger last year.
The affluent Saudis who used to flock to Bahrain at weekends to enjoy Manama's bars and brothels have decamped to Dubai since the crisis.
Fighting between protesters and police continues daily in villages outside Manama.
On Wednesday, opposition supporters held a protest demanding Sunday's Grand Prix also be called off, and calling for the immediate release of Mr Khawaja in Old Manama.
Police have set up more checkpoints on main roads and security reinforcements have been deployed around the birthplace of the rebellion, Pearl Square in the capital, Manama.
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in recent days to protest against the country's ruling monarchy, basing themselves at the Pearl Roundabout in the capital Manama.
CNN: Bahrain Grand Prix canceled due to ongoing civil unrest
She will also travel to the Middle East to deliver a speech on the role of the United States in regional security at the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain.
But in Bahrain police are still engaged in near-daily fights with protesters, mainly in the rundown Shia villages that surround the wealthy commercial hub of Manama, the capital.
But domestically, with the Sunni Muslim ruling family trying to suppress calls for democracy, especially from the impoverished Shia Muslim suburbs around Manama, the future looks less predictable.
In December these staunch American friends invited Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to address their annual summit in Manama, and Saudi Arabia hosted him during the haj pilgrimage to Mecca.
"This verdict is final, there are no more appeals possible, it is the last stage of litigation, " defence lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi told Reuters news agency by telephone from Manama.
There have been almost daily clashes in Bahrain since security forces used birdshot and tear gas to quash a three-day-old peaceful protest at Manama's Pearl Roundabout on 17 February 2011.
The Gulf island kingdom has been wracked by nearly two years of violence that followed the clearing of an iconic landmark, Pearl Roundabout, in the capital Manama, in February 2011.
MANAMA, Bahrain (CNN) -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw called on Syria Monday to assure the international community it has severed ties with Iraq's former regime and does not possess illegal chemical weapons.
There have been almost daily clashes in the tiny Gulf island kingdom since security forces used birdshot and tear gas to quash a three-day-old peaceful protest at Manama's Pearl Roundabout on 17 February 2011.
Medical staff from the facility went to help injured protesters after security police used force to disperse thousands of people who had camped out at an iconic landmark, Pearl Roundabout, in the capital, Manama.
The uprising began in Bahrain after protesters occupied a prominent landmark in the capital, Manama, to demand more rights and an end to discrimination against the majority Shia Muslim community by the Sunni royal family.
MANAMA, Bahrain (CNN) -- Bahrain's king has offered "safe exile" to Saddam Hussein, saying he hopes the Iraqi leader "would seriously consider this offer before the onset of war, " the government-run Bahrain News Agency said Wednesday.
The spokesman said although there had been continuing problems in Bahrain over the past 12 months, the riots in the main city of Manama were smaller than those which took place in Britain's capital London last August.
Thousands of people gathered in the village of al-Bilad al-Qadeem to mourn Salah Abbas Habib Musa, whose body was found on a farm outside Manama early Saturday, day after he took part in a demonstration that was broken up by security forces, according to opposition groups.
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) After nearly two years of nonstop unrest, opposing factions in Bahrain began talks on Sunday to ease an Arab Spring conflict that has run longer than Syria's rebellion and is playing out on the doorstep of the U.S. military's main naval base in the Persian Gulf.
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