Lebanon's Haifa Wehbi chosen as among the top 30 most beautiful

When Rina Chibani fails to get Lebanon the Miss Universe title, leave it to Haifa Wehbi to put us again under the spotlights.

Mark Wahlberg & Dwanye Johnson in the same movie, just couldn’t get any better then that.

A new U.N. Human Rights Council report warns of widening sectarian conflict in Syria.

It said that communities are arming themselves because they feel at risk, and “ethnic and religious minority groups have increasingly aligned themselves with parties to the conflict, deepening sectarian divides.”

It has been widely noted that monarchies have done better at surviving the Arab uprisings that began two years ago.

No Arab monarch has yet lost his throne. For some analysts and academics, this pattern suggests a fairly obvious "monarchical exception" which demands explanation.

in Alexandria, the Salafists don't let other types of Muslims pray in the mosque. This has led to some friction.. to say the least.