Yahoo was the front door to the web for an early generation of internet users, and its services still attract a billion visitors a month. But the internet is an unforgiving place for yesterday’s great idea, and Yahoo has now reached the end of the line as an independent company. ...

The author Michael Cohen write an article in the guardian newspaper talking about the presidential elections in America and the race struggle between the republican nominee Donald trump and the Democratic one Hillary Clinton, entitled: “Trump’s vision of America is ugly and dark. Clinton should respond with hope.” He started ...

8 tips for summer gardening Our long, wet spring seems to have given way, at last, to the typical hot, dry summer. Gardeners now face a whole new set of problems. Since we can’t change the weather, let’s try and help our gardeners make the best of it. What practical ...

Samer Attar, a surgeon with Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, is a volunteer with the Syrian American Medical Society and the Aleppo City Medical Council. “Please don’t cut off my leg,” a Syrian man pleaded. He had been shopping when a missile hit a crowded market. The blast seared off his ...

One of the most tortured men in the history of Guantánamo Bay has received clearance from the wartime prison’s quasi-parole board to leave after nearly 14 years of detention without charge. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian citizen whose harrowing account of his torture at Guantánamo Bay became an international bestseller ...

The U.S. presidential race isn’t only drawing attention and controversy in the United States it’s being closely watched across the globe. A U.S. presidential election is a complex, multi-stage process that is both confusing and uncertain. It begins when candidates begin to declare their intentions to run for president, often ...

One of the oldest radio stations in the Arab world. The Lebanese Radio station was established in 1938 as Radio Levant by the French Mandate and was based in the Government Palace building (Grand Serail), the former Prime Minister’s headquarters and the present Ministry of Interior. After the end of ...

The National News Agency was established in 1961 by legislative decree No. 7276 and was known as the Directorate of National News Agency.  The Agency was established to act as an important informational tool and a formal reference to the public authorities and to both public and private media outlets. The ...

Lebanese press was influenced since its inception by the political and social conditions as it expressed demands for reform in the society. The existing Arab press was then government-run and regarded as the mouthpiece of the regime.  The “Garden of News” published by Khalil Khoury (1836 – 1907) in Beirut in ...

Almost a year ago, National Geographic told the story of Aixa, now eight years old, who lives in Avia Terai, a town in Argentina surrounded by soybeans and other crops treated with pesticides. Included was a photograph by Marco Vernaschi that showed tumors and blotches covering Aixa’s face and body. ...