By Staff writer, Al Arabiya News Thursday, 5 November 2015

At least 10 were killed after a car bombing targeted an office belonging to Syrian religious scholars on Thursday in the northeastern town of Arsal in Lebanon near the Syrian border, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.

The bomb detonated in the Sabil neighborhood of Arsal, in an area where militants linked to the conflict across the border in Syria have carried out attacks in the past.

Emergency services were working to rescue people from the rubble, local media said, according to Reuters news agency.

middleeastmonitor.com

Dozens of Lebanese women and their children have joined protests in central Beirut yesterday demanding the Lebanese law be amended to allow women married to foreigners to pass their nationality to their children.

The protest is part of a campaign titled “My nationality, a right for me and my family”.

The participants held banners that read “nationality is not identification papers” and “the mother is the origin”.

“We demand the Lebanese nationality law, which enshrines discrimination between women and men, be amended. We demand the law be amended so as to ensure full and complete equality between women and men and to give Lebanese women the right to grant citizenship to their families and children when the husband is a foreigner,” campaign coordinator Karima Shabbo told the Anadolu Agency.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Twenty-six people thought to be Lebanese and Syrian were winched to safety by helicopters off Cyprus in an overnight operation when their sailboat began to sink in rough seas, authorities said.

Radars picked up a distress signal from the boat sailing off the island's south-eastern tip, which is prone to very strong sea currents. Police said a number of passengers required medical treatment for hypothermia. "The occupants of the sailboat said they had set off from Lebanon," a police spokesman said. Media reports suggested they were attempting to reach Greece, the primary gateway to the European Union for close to 600,000 migrants and refugees fleeing war this year.

mirror.co.uk

The famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon were among the seven wonders of the ancient world.

And now a Middle Eastern businessman has recreated this marvel for the modern age by recreating it inside a petrol station.

The stunning picture of luxury cars being fuelled up under canopies of leaves and flowers has gone viral on imgur, having been viewed more than a million times.

It was snapped in the trendy bar nightlife spot of Mar Mikael in Beirut.

One commenter said it was the "most aesthetically pleasing one in all of Lebanon", adding the way they hold the foliage is through metal fencing, and it basically just loops around the metal wires."Another commented: "I love when everyday things are made beautiful."