Lebanon News

JBEIL, Lebanon: Struggling to find a professional laptop case which was stylish, feminine and not obscenely overpriced led Alice Edde to create her own range of bags.

Jailed: Christopher Grierson, 60, forged travel documents to defraud his law firm out of 1.2million in bogus travel expenses A senior partner at a top City law firm was jailed for three years today for fleecing his company out of 1.2m in a bogus travel expenses scam.

The former spice trading route from China through the Middle East and North Africa to Europe left an indelible mark on the countries through which it passed.

The Lebanese Ministry of Energy and Water has wronged four million Lebanese people for tens of years, as power rationing has sucked millions of dollars from their pockets for no reason Around 2500 contract workers, some of whom have spent a lifetime of service at Lebanon's electricity company, are being threatened with mass layoffs.

BEIRUT: Like a child still tugging on his uniform tie as he dashes out the door, The Garden Show & Spring Festival opened at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

More than 400 war-torn buildings have been restored to their original Ottoman glory, and 900 others have been torn down and rebuilt.A An imposing new anchor for the area is Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque, built between 2002 and 2007 by Prime Minister Rafic Hariri .

People carry the body of Abdel-Ghani al-Jebbawi, who was shot and killed by the Syrian army, during his funeral procession in the northeastern Bekaa village of Arsal, Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

Governments around the world expelled Syrian ambassadors and diplomats Tuesday, an unusual, coordinated blow to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime following a gruesome massacre that the United Nations said involved close-range shootings of scores of children and parents in their homes.

A man who had been holed up in a 150-foot construction crane on a college campus fell early Tuesday after an hours-long standoff with Dallas police.

The Airbus 320 is part of Hout's plan to expand the fleet to 20 new aircraft by 2020.

Hussein, a former security guard in the SLA, returns to his job leveling earth in the southern village of Beit Yahoun, Friday, May 18, 2012.

1919 - Emir Feisal backs Arab self-rule at the Versailles peace conference, following the defeat of Germany and the Ottoman Empire in World War I. 1920 March - The National Congress proclaims Emir Feisal king of Syria "in its natural boundaries" from the Taurus mountains in Turkey to the Sinai desert in Egypt.

In the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit, the Lebanese government made a pledge to develop renewable energy production capacity to reach 12 percent of the total electricity supply by 2020.

Supporters of Hezbollah watch a televised speech by Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah on the occasion of Liberation and Resistance Day in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, Friday, May 25, 2012.

With confirmation of the massacre of children by forces of the Assad regime in Syria there likely will now be calls for a military intervention there.

God only knows the truth of the matter in light of this thick fog of chaos, and the ugly international negligence when it comes to upholding the rights of Syria One of the common features that can be seen in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon, and perhaps also Syria to a large extent, is that tourism is viewed as a major resource for the national economy.

Relatives of abducted Lebanese Shiite Muslim pilgrims kidnapped in northern Syria react after hearing the news of their release on May 25, 2012 in the Beirut southern suburb of Bir al-Abed. AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID ANKARA: A group of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims kidnapped in Syria and said by Lebanese authorities to have reached Turkey are not in the ... (more)

Turkey says waters off the coast of war-divided Cyprus where Greek Cypriots plan to explore for natural gas lie within its continental shelf, sharpening multi-sided disputes over major fields under the eastern Mediterranean.

BEIRUT: Over 150 people attended a rock concert Friday night at the recently reopened T-Marbouta caf in Hamra organized by the American University of Beirut Human Rights Club in collaboration with the Migrant Workers Task Force .

International Fairs & Promotions announced during a press conference at "Gefinor Rotana" hotel in Beirut, the launch of the seventeenth edition of Project Lebanon 2012, the International Construction Trade Exhibition for Lebanon and the Middle East, which will be held under the auspices of HE the President of the Council of Ministers, Mr.