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Jan Brykczynski wins Syngenta award

Tougher laws to tackle the threat of dangerous dogs and irresponsible owners do not go far enough, MPs have said

A tornado rips through the town of Granbury in the US state of Texas, causing six deaths and destroying or damaging dozens of homes.

The EU warns it may investigate claims that Chinese telecom firms have been paid subsidies, allowing them to flood markets with cheap equipment.

Japanese car manufacturer Honda will return to Formula 1 in 2015 as engine suppliers to the McLaren team.

Amazon's UK unit paid £2.4m in corporation tax last year, despite making sales of £4.3bn, the online retailer's accounts show.

Police arrested an Ethiopian maid for assaulting her 75-year-old employer and burning her with hot water in Jbeil, north of Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported Thursday.

NNA said that the house worker, 24, hit Samia Kh. on her head with a bronze statue and then sprayed her with hot water after she collapsed in her home in Mastita.

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BP appeals to Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene over the escalating compensation costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

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Zimbabwe seeks to preserve its colonial farmhouses

Taiwan conducts military exercises near the Philippines following a diplomatic row over the death of a Taiwanese fisherman.

Education and children's services in Blaenau Gwent are still failing two years after the local education authority was placed into special measures, inspectors say.

There is no simple answer on the issue of whether anonymity should be granted to suspects who are arrested but not yet charged, David Cameron says.

The Daily Star
US gives further aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon: UN
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: The United States has contributed a further $32 million in aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Thursday. “A $32 million contribution by the United States to United Nations aid agencies will provide ...
Thousands of children fleeing Syrian civil war to LebanonUPI.com
Russia Sends Humanitarian Aid to Syrian Refugees in LebanonNaharnet

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Radio 1 breakfast DJ Nick Grimshaw has lost nearly a million listeners since taking over from Chris Moyles, Rajar audience figures show.

The thousands of Britons who have made Bulgaria home

Lebanon Rescue Department holding festival
Foster's Daily Democrat
We are thankful to all of the local businesses who have donated items for our raffle to help us raise money to continue a scholarship to honor the heroic work by Lebanon Police Officer Jeffrey Bull who died keeping Lebanon safe. Twenty-six years later ...

Reporting from Beirut..Christ you know it aint easy

Wa Nkbatah

yabkoon 3ala’l nakba wahoom fil Nakbati kolo yaowmin merara

Ka’”sak ya watan ya ka’sa’l marara (bda3ah aweiyeh)

kiss ekht
kiss mart
kiss ….sho hayda wlooooooooohhh.. am ara here

i just wanna know what the fuck is wrong with all these people.. it’s insanity.. How can they go on doing this all the time the hypocrisy ya elahi can the Arabs please quit killing each other please
look at the children in the streets

Plans to convert a mansion in Birmingham into a £6m headquarters for the Church of Scientology are recommended for approval.

A nuclear power station in East Lothian opens its doors to the public for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US in 2001.