“It took decades,” Karl Sharro tweeted recently, “but Beirut is finally the Beirut of the Middle East.”
Madonna had to pull a Kanye West on Kanye West to get the rapper-producer to focus in the studio.
Serena Williams returns to the WTA and ATP event at Indian Wells this week for the first time since 2001 while defending men’s champion Novak Djokovic is...
John Oliver may have been ruled out of the running to replace Jon Stewart but the British comedian has cemented his status as The Daily Show host’s spiritual...
Will Lebanon’s presidential election crisis eventually be internationalized as the only way to end the 9-month-old vacuum in the country’s top Christian post?
World No. 1 Serena Williams has buried the hatchet and will return to Indian Wells to play in the tournament she has boycotted for 14 years after suffering...
Egypt’s most popular satirist Bassem Youssef joined Harvard’s Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government as a resident fellow for the...
The White House admitted Monday it should have sent a senior official to the massive rally against terrorism in Paris, as President Barack Obama came under...
Lebanese make up a majority of Australian Islamists fighting alongside radical organizations in Iraq and Syria.
Time magazine Wednesday named the medics who have treated patients struck with the killer Ebola virus as its "Person of the Year 2014", paying tribute to...
Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen retained his title as world chess champion Sunday, defeating rival Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship for the...
Abortion, marijuana, gay marriage, GMOs and bear-baiting: Americans voted Tuesday on a welter of local and national issues, on the sidelines of the US midterm...
What Cameron Silver, fashion historian and philanthropist, does not know about fashion is not worth knowing.
Amazon's new TV show "Transparent" aims to do for transsexuals what "Modern Family" did for gay parents -- bring them firmly into the mainstream.
Li Na single-handedly sparked a tennis revolution in Asia and became one of the world’s most successful athletes thanks to her fierce determination to...
When Hassan Rouhani was campaigning for president in spring 2013, he chose a key as the overarching symbol of his electoral platform and vision for a new Iran.
Iraqi forces battle militants northeast of Baghdad, as Washington says ISIS is "beyond anything" it has seen and that operations in Syria may also be needed.
Shiite militiamen gun down 70 people in an apparent revenge attack at an Iraqi Sunni mosque, dealing a blow to government efforts to regain territory seized...
Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is singing the praises of personal drones and marveling at their untapped potential – although smuggling contraband into a...
Fans of "Orange Is the New Black" are counting down the hours until the second season of the wildly-popular women's prison "dramedy" is released Friday on...