BEIRUT: The Beirut-based car company W Motors has completed the first prototype of its $3.4 million “ultra-luxury hypercar” and is gearing up to officially launch sales at the Qatar Auto show on Jan. 29. The “LykanHypersport 2013” is the brainchild of Beirut-born car designer Ralph Debbas, who is the lead investor, chairman and chief […]

  رحب الوزير السابق فريد هيكل الخازن، في حديث لـ"ال.بي.سي."، "بأي مواطن لبناني في كسروان اذا كانت تأتي في اطار السياحة انما نرفض شكل زيارة الشيخ احمد الاسير اليوم خصوصا ان كافة السيارات كانت من الزجاج الداكن ". واكد ان تحرك الاهالي كان عفوياً، معتبرا انه "يحق لنا الاعتصام على ارضنا سلمياً، خصوصا ان الاسير […]

  Around 50 protesters from Kfardebian briefly blocked the main road of the mountain town on Thursday to protest a visit to a ski resort by controversial Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir. Kfardebian municipal chief Jean Aqiqi told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) that the road was blocked “out of fears of the consequences that Sheikh […]

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – Palestinians who fled Syria’s war to neighboring Lebanon are living up to 20 in a room with no water, fresh air or electricity, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday. Donors needed to do more to help at least 20,000 Palestinians who have already come in and […]

  President Michel Suleiman expressed on Monday his desire for current transformations in the region to “guarantee the reform, freedom and true democracy that people are looking for”. "There is no stability in the Middle East without social justice,” Suleiman stated after receiving an award by the International Foundation for Unity of Orthodox Christian Nations in […]