WHAT will be the fastest growing economy in 2012? The answer is perhaps surprising: Libya. It is projected to grow by an extraordinary 122% this year, according to the IMF, as oil production recovers faster than expected.  That is, however, only the second fastest year of growth in the IMF’s database (which stretches back over three decades). The […]

  أكد عضو تكتل "التغيير والاصلاح" النائب فريد الخازن انّ "اي توتر امني لن يحصل على الجبهة بين لبنان واسرائيل، وليس هناك جهة لبنانية تسعى او تريد تغيير المعادلة القائمة على الحدود منذ العام 2006 وتحديدا في ما خص الالتزام بالقرار 1701". وعلّق في حديث لـ"المركزية"، على حادث اكتشاف صاروخين معدين للاطلاق في المنطقة الحدودية […]

  (CNN) — In the digital age, war isn’t contained to the ground. The Israeli government on Sunday said it has been hit with more than 44 million cyberattacks since it began aerial strikes on Gaza last week. Anonymous, the hacker collective, claimed responsibility for taking down some sites and leaking passwords because of what […]

  President Michel Suleiman will address the Lebanese people on Wednesday on the eve of Independence Day where he will stress the necessity to spare Lebanon any regional repercussions following Monday’s discovery of rockets set up to be fired against Israel, unnamed sources told An Nahar daily Tuesday. The president is expected to reiterate the need […]

  November 20, 2012 — Bill O’Reilly has become an even more controversial figure than usual over the last few weeks.   On election night, the famously straight talking commentator remarked that America’s changing electorate won the President a second term. Almost immediately, he was criticized as a bigot by too many names to mention. This […]

  In Syria, the Christian minority was long left in peace by the Assad regime – but they are between the front lines in the civil war. Germany is considering offering them a safe haven. Germany taking in Syrian Christians – it would be an act of humanity. This is how the chairman of Chancellor Merkel’s […]

    The red Mitsubishi Lancer GT with "go faster" stripes was a source of great pride to Hamlig Bedrosian. It was the only one of its kind in the city, pointed out on the streets as he roared along, an object of admiration and envy among his friends in Aleppo. The car may have been […]

  Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians Sunday not to heed doomsday warnings that the world will end on December 21. During his weekly Angelus address from the window of his Vatican apartments on Saint Peter’s Square, Benedict spoke of extracts from the bible which speak of "the sun and moon going out, the stars falling […]