Brett LoGiurato and Maxwell Tani

Ten Republican candidates took center stage in Cleveland for the first presidential debate of the 2016 campaign.

Fox News, the host of the first debate, limited the Republican participants in the prime-time debate to the 10 candidates polling best in an average of five recent national polls. It comes hours after the bottom-tier candidates went head-to-head in a separate forum.

Kareem Shaheen in Beirut

The 30 seconds between the power outage and the generator kicking in feel like a lifetime.

Sweat pools on eyebrows. The anticipation is unbearable. And then the power starts up and the fan blasts cool air across your soaked shirt. The little pleasures in life, all the more enjoyable during a Middle East heatwave.

James Haines-Young

After weeks of scrambling, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Wednesday promised that the country would see a “phased” end to its mounting garbage crisis, which could be over “within days”.

But more than 21 days after rubbish collection in the capital first stopped and piles of rotting waste began decomposing in the city’s streets in the summer heat, many residents are demanding an overhaul of the situation, not another quick fix.