Tributes paid to fearless reporter described as ‘the greatest journalist of his generation’   Robert Fisk, a veteran Middle East correspondent for The Independent  and the most celebrated journalist of his era, has died after an illness. He was 74. Fisk was renowned for his courage in questioning official narratives from governments and ...

Water could be used for humans who travel to the Moon and create permanent lunar base there, as Nasa hopes to   Water has been definitively found on the Moon, Nasa has said, and there are a set of “water traps” that could hold it stably. The research suggests that water could be distributed ...

The Lebanese Ministry of Information publishes on its website, as well as on the National News Agency’s website, its course of action within the government’s six-month stint. The Ministry of Information has worked on a plethora of projects starting the day it gained confidence back on the 11th of February, ...

A new discovery, just 30 miles west of London, may help transform historians’ understanding of the long process that led to the birth of England. Archaeologists from the University of Reading have begun an investigation into a Dark Age military leader whose grave has been discovered on a hill overlooking the Thames near the ...

Egypt on Saturday put on show dozens of coffins belonging to priests and clerks from the 26th dynasty nearly 2,500 years ago, with archaeologists saying tens more were found in the vast Saqqara necropolis just days ago. The 59 coffins were discovered in August at the UNESCO world heritage site ...

Africa’s overburdened public health systems, dearth of testing facilities and overcrowded slums had experts predicting a disaster when COVID-19 hit the continent in February. The new coronavirus was already wreaking havoc in wealthy Asian and European nations, and a United Nations agency said in April that, even with social-distancing measures, ...

Apple has announced the launch date of the new iPhone 12. It will show off the phone at an event on 13 October, at 10am local pacific time, it said in an invitation. Normally, Apple’s phones are put on sale a week and a half after they are revealed, which ...

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Breathing with face masks does not affect the lungs The average face mask may be uncomfortable but does not ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Tuesday addressed two letters to each of Caretaker Minister of Justice, Marie-Claude Najem, and Chairman of the Administration and Justice House committee, MP George Adwan, in which she indicated that Lebanon has witnessed a regression at the level of freedom ...

Death toll doubles in three months as virus continues to spread   The coronavirus pandemic has now claimed more than 1 million lives around the globe, according to the latest official death tolls, with more than 33 million cases. The grim milestone was passed in the early hours of Tuesday morning. On ...