Jabal Lubnan, Lebanon News

Lebanon allowed a deadline to establish an anti-torture institution to pass and should quickly adopt measures to address the issue, human-rights groups said.

In the year since Israel launched its devastating military offensive against Hamas in Gaza, the country's political and military leaders have faced intense international condemnation and accusations of possible war crimes.

Flights from Britain and other European countries were diverted when the main airport in Cyrpus was shut down until malfunctioning runway lights could be repaired.

Syrian President Bashar Assad said it was "natural" for him to plan a trip to meet with Lebanese leaders in Beirut when the time was right.

Today is Thursday, Dec. 31, the 365th and final day of 2009. Highlights in history on this date: 1494 - Forces of France's King Charles VIII enter Rome.

BEIRUT: A Syrian Kurdish man was killed in a car accident on the Hush Highway near Tyre in south Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.

The funeral of a prominent dissident cleric in the holy Iranian city of Qom turned into a vast and furious anti-government rally Monday, raising the possibility that the cleric's death could serve as a catalyst for an opposition movement that has been locked in a stalemate with the authorities.

BEIRUT: Unknown attackers tore the tyres of several vehicles of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the National News Agency of Lebanon reported on Monday.

A Lebanese man who hosted a popular TV show where he gave callers advice and sometimes predicted the future was sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia last month.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec.

Assailants fired on a bus carrying Syrian labourers into Lebanon on Monday, killing one person in an attack that took place on the heels of a landmark visit to Damascus by Lebanon's premier.

BEIRUT: France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announced on Friday a one-year extension of the 225 million euro loan to Lebanon agreed in January 2007, provided that the government in Beirut proceeds with promised economic reforms.

BEIRUT: Fatah representative in Lebanon Brigadier Sultan Abu al-Aynayn said in comments published Tuesday that Palestinian factions in Lebanon reject breaches of the country's security.

Articles 10:04 12/18/2009 Lebanon's Ebenezer Scrooge Things seemed to be going well for Lebanon this Christmas season.

The bombing of Beirut's southern suburbs by Israel in 2006 destroyed and damaged hundreds of buildings.

John Lennon springs to mind, or perhaps a youth orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

BEIRUT: A cargo ship carrying 83 crew members and a load of cattle sank off the Lebanese coast Thursday in stormy weather, and hours later rescuers had pulled 12 people from the water, officials said.

Earlier this month, Daniel Bellemare, the prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, met with the families of victims who lost their lives in the bomb attacks between 2005 and 2009.

Enforcing a 2006 cease-fire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel is making progress, but is largely incomplete, the U.S. president said in Washington.

BEIRUT: Water and Energy Minister Gebran Bassil opened Monday the annual gathering for reviewing the work of the energy project organized by the Lebanese Center for Preserving Energy.