retrieved

from discarded leather.

The Formula 1 Grand Prix in Bahrain has

passed off

without incident despite concerns that the opposition might try to disrupt it. The race was won by the reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel. Caroline Hawley reports.

"The red lights go on, three, four, five lights on when they go out, we will be racing. And they..."

Despite all the controversy, despite the protests, the show went ahead without disruption, but with the tighter security ever seen at a Grand Prix. The Bahraini authorities succeeded in keeping demonstrators away from the heavily guarded circuit. Elsewhere, though, tyres were burnt in protest, and the opposition is reporting injuries caused by security forces firing birdshot. Hosting the Grand Prix was built by the authorities as an event to unify the island, but with one protester dead, others wounded, the Formula 1 drivers leave behind an island that is as bitterly divided as ever.

The Sri Lankan government has ordered the removal of a mosque from an area it says is sacred to the country's Buddhist majority. The Prime Minister DM Jayaratne said the mosque in the town of Dambulla would be

relocated

. Officials said it was being expanded illegally, but Muslim leaders disputed this.

At least nine people have been injured in Argentina in a clash between rival sections of a trade union group. Police said two armed men burst into the offices of the Construction Workers' Union in Buenos Aires. The men, thought to belong to a rival faction of the same union, opened fire on the people there, leaving one man