Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Mondaywelcomed in her office at the Ministry a delegation from the national committee of tenants, chaired by Antoine Karam. The delegation briefed Minister Abdel Samad on the plight endured by the old tenants, in terms of the “unfair” and “unfeasible” law ...

Nasa is funding a major new search for alien life elsewhere in the universe. The project – which is being run by scientists at Harvard and the University of Rochester – will scan the skies for signs of life known as technosignatures. Those are indications of alien technologies, which would be revealed to us either on ...

One of the few upsides of lockdown was that, if a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, you had a chance of hearing it. City dwellers across the globe delighted in the silence, the freedom from the incessant rumble of traffic, and the joy of birdsong. How cleaner the air seemed, ...

Event will be visible across a narrow band from Congo-Brazzaville to southern China Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian peninsula, India and southern China will witness the most dramatic “ring of fire” solar eclipse in years on Sunday. Annular eclipses occur when the moon passes between Earth ...

The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that 51 new Coronavirus cases were registered during the past 24 hours in Lebanon. The new cases were divided as follows: 19 among the residents and 32 among the returnees. This brings the total number of cases in the country to 1587. LBCI

The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that 26 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country. The ministry added that 24 Coronavirus were registered among the residents and only 2 among the returnees. LBCI

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of those in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. “The world is in a new and dangerous phase,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from WHO ...

A delegation of the United Nations in Lebanon visited Friday Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, at her ministry office, to follow up on an array of joint projects, especially the plan aiming to combat misleading and fake news. The delegation comprised UNICEF’s Lebanon Representative Yukie Mokuo, WHO Representative to ...

The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 15 new Coronavirus cases were registered during the past 24 hours in Lebanon. The new cases were divided as follows: 10 among the residents and 5 among the returnees. This brings the total number of cases in the country to 1510. LBCI

Coronavirus antibodies may last only two to three months after a person becomes infected with Covid-19, according to a new study published Thursday in Nature Medicine. Researchers examined 37 asymptomatic people, those who never developed symptoms, in the Wanzhou District of China. They compared their antibody response to that of 37 people with ...