Misdeeds in Manama

Bahrain's daily newspaper is infinitely more salacious than any of the UAE rags. Violence, adultery and prostitution all raise their wicked heads, the latter an intriguingly ingenious mobile brothel, with some poor housemaid-hooker driven around the city like a bargain basement ice-cream van. Just eight dollars a pop.

The UAE spends its time fretting about laundry and tackling a car washing menace.

Dull times, dull crimes.