Monuments discovered in Lebanon indicate that it is one of the oldest human settlements in the world, with over 5,000 years of recorded history. The Phoenicians, who invented the alphabet, were the early inhabitants of the country. They rose to fame on the shores of Lebanon where they engaged in ...

A former German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, recently called Angela Merkel’s decision to open the door to an unlimited number of refugees a “mistake” and offered this verdict: Merkel had a “heart, but no plan.” This view of the German leader, who is beloved but now begrudged, is gaining ground as ...

The Zika virus has been blamed for thousands of cases of the birth defect microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with severely shrunken heads and brain damage. But now a medical organization is challenging that connection, saying that the chemical larvicide Pyriproxyfen is instead to blame. The Argentine ...

Dr. Antoine Matta The link between the employment market and the university is not new or strange to the higher education in its various specializations and programs. It is effective in all the universities of the world and is part of the academic “globalization” of hiring due to the relation ...

Dr. Antoine Nasri Messarra          Some lengthy political television programs in Lebanon merely present antagonist positions compelling the spectator to take sides with either one as in a football match. This kind of program constitutes a daily systematic education, based on dependence, subordination, allegiance and controversial positions. The outstanding absent ...

Dr. Tony Atallah The laws ruling the information in Lebanon, printed press and audio-visual, are no more sufficient to contain all the moral rules of the media behavior. Therefore, a charter regulating the information profession and enhancing it ethics is necessary. The mere mention of the need of a charter, ...

Berg, a private company that uses artificial intelligence to discover new drugs and diagnostics, will help England’s national genomics project mine DNA and health data from thousands of British citizens for potential drug targets. Berg, based in Boston, was co-founded in 2006 by Silicon Valley real estate billionaire Carl Berg. ...

Istanbul governor’s office says 10 killed and 15 wounded by blast in historic Sultanahmet district of city Turkish police have sealed off the square and ambulances have rushed to the scene, close to the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, in a major tourist area of Turkey’s most populous city. The ...

Trucks carried food and medicine into the city of Madaya, Syria, where there have been reports of wide-spread starvation. BEIRUT, Lebanon — The first trucks from a convoy carrying food and medical aid entered the besieged Syrian town of Madaya on Monday, only to discover harrowing scenes of desperation, including ...

Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday, while again accusing the West of exacerbating international crises that had contributed to it. “We are faced with common threats, and we still want all countries, both in ...