A wall built to contain a burgeoning Tripoli dumpsite is progressively cracking and quivering behind the weight of a 37-meter-high pile of decomposing trash...
A hot air balloon marked with the Israeli flag crashed Thursday into an electrical pole in the Chouf town of Baaqlin, causing an explosion and a power outage,...
A section of the wall built to keep Tripoli's trash mountain from collapsing into the Mediterranean Sea buckled for the second time this week, a security...
“The concept of my photos,” photographer Joe Ghanem told The Daily Star, “is capturing those elderly people who are forced to work as security guards.”
Official sources say that President Michel Aoun’s speech Wednesday calling for the separation of Cabinet and Parliament is not a new stance by the country’s...
The Foreign Ministry demanded UNHCR refrain from issuing further statements on refugee returns in a statement addressed to the body’s Lebanon representative...
The newly introduced preferential vote will play a major role in the upcoming parliamentary elections as political sources say some parties will take...
Sylvana al-Lakkis Friday announced her resignation from the Electoral Supervisory Committee, saying she did not want to be party to the committee’s...
The Boghossian Foundation’s annual Young Lebanese Artists Award announced its call for applications Friday, with two new categories added. Founded in 1992,...
Not so long ago, there were two competing explanations of unemployment. The first was the Keynesian theory of deficient demand, which holds that workers...
A Kataeb supporter was released from custody Friday after being briefly detained for distributing flyers critical of Free Patriotic Movement MP Ibrahim Kanaan...
Washington’s strong stance against the actions of Hezbollah has filtered into the Lebanese diaspora that supports the group,.
What would happen if 500 Beiruti commuters simultaneously decided to drop their cars in favor of a bicycle? Find out on April 25.
Change has come to the Gulf’s oldest international film festival, and brought with it a little more uncertainty for the region’s filmmakers. Earlier this week...
Sitting at the controls of a Boeing space-flight simulator, “docking” the company’s planned “Starliner” craft with an imaginary space station, you begin to...
On a recent holiday in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, I couldn’t resist thinking about these countries’ economic potential and ongoing policy challenges.
Lebanon residents should beware of eating certain wild herbs, mushrooms and fish that are poisonous to humans, a Health Ministry source told The Daily Star...
Cabinet Thursday endorsed a new 34-hour work week schedule for public sector employees during a session at the Grand Serail, Social Affairs Minister Pierre...
Dozens of people with disabilities gathered Thursday in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square as Cabinet met, protesting inaccessible polling stations in the hope of...
Education Minister Marwan Hamadeh said Thursday that he would work to pass a law to amend salaries for educators before the end of the current Parliament’s...