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Faces of Lebanon: Billionaire’s Management, nightlife Straight Outta Beirut

18 October 2016

BEIRUT: Jaiir Massoud, 24, has been working as an event planner ever since he was 16 years old. “My friends and I would talk to a pub owner, reserve the place for a night and work on our public relations skills to invite people. Same […]

Lebanese American University holds Model Arab League

16 October 2016

BEIRUT: The 6th Lebanese American University Model Arab League kicked-off on Saturday, with the intent of creating an educational journey for middle and high school students who would spend the weekend considering contemporary issues facing the Arab world. Through three training sessions students become acquainted […]

Why you should give your sons more chores than your daughters

12 October 2016

For the first few years of life, boys and girls are mostly equal. They develop mentally at about the same rate, are disciplined similarly and are equally likely to start school, a new UNICEF study says. But the study suggests that gender differences begin to […]

US to work with private firms on Mars plan

12 October 2016

President Barack Obama says the US will work with private companies on its plan to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. President Obama announced his proposals for a crewed mission to the Red Planet in 2010. But Nasa’s plan to realise this presidential vision […]

Syrian Children Return to School in IS-Freed Town

12 October 2016

MANBIJ, SYRIA — Children in a Syrian town freed in August from the Islamic State militants are back in their regular classrooms after a near three-year absence. “I’m really grateful to see children back in their seats,” said Ahmed Hassan, a teacher at one of […]

Iranian Beauty Takes US State Department by Storm Read more: https://sputniknews.com/art_living/20160922/1045600087/iran-us-representative-dialogue.html

10 October 2016

The recent appointment of Iranian-American Sahar Nowrouzzadeh as Persian spokesperson for the US Department of State is likely to help improve the dialogue between Washington and Tehran. Nowrouzzadeh, who was born in Iran and moved with her family to the US as a child, is […]

Syrian Native Smuggles Toys to Children Trapped in Aleppo

8 October 2016

Haunted by images of terrified children living in the mist of war in his hometown of Aleppo, Syrian native Rami Adham wanted to help them. And so in 2012, he began a series of perilous journeys to smuggle toys into Aleppo. “Initially, I traveled to […]

Lebanese Social Worker Sisters Tackle Radicalization

6 October 2016

BEIRUT, LEBANON — Within the confines of Lebanon’s Roumieh prison they gathered together as men recounting lives led before they became seen as terrorists. Inmates whose affiliations spanned across Islamic State (IS) and a gamut of other Islamist groups were in discussion and, for once, […]

Space: A New Frontier for Iran-US Cooperation?

6 October 2016

The head of Iran’s space program made the suggestion at the October 4 launch of World Space Week. “[M]any in the world look at NASA’s programs,” Mohsen Bahrami, head of the Iranian Space Agency, said. “We are interested in having cooperation, naturally. When you are […]

An Act Of Kindness, From One Immigrant To Another

2 October 2016

Jo Du was being helped into her gorgeous white wedding dress this week when a tooth on the zipper broke. It was Sunday in Guelph, Ontario, and no tailor shop was open. Jo Du didn’t want to walk down the aisle to marry Earl Lee […]

The United Nations Is Launching A Space Mission

1 October 2016

The U.N. is planning to launch its first space mission into orbit, packed with scientific experiments from countries that can’t afford their own space programs. It’s teaming up with the Sierra Nevada Corporation, which makes the Dream Chaser, a reuseable spacecraft that, when it returns […]

Are We Alone? Scientists Probe Decades-Old Space Radio Sources

30 September 2016

NASA’s Swift gamma-ray burst space observatory launched an investigation to clarify a number mysterious radio sources detected decades ago. The Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (3C) is a database of radio sources detected in outer space, compiled in 1959. In 1962, the catalogue was […]