Photoshop, the ubiquitous photo manipulation program that is 20 years old, is now so popular it’s a verb in common usage
You’re browsing the online catalogue for Heine, the German interiors-and-­everything-else shop, when a “secretary table” catches your eye. The white one looks hideous, but there’s a brown one – so you click the picture to [...]

This village has a complicated history, adapting to the shifting map of territorial conquests and squeezed between Israel, Lebanon and Syria.

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One of the victims, Tigist Tadess Woldemariam, is remembered as a trusted friend and beloved nanny who one day hoped to launch a farming project in her homeland.
The woman from the [...]

International powers interested in stabilizing the region are pushing to change the status of a village that sits at the volatile juncture where Israel, Lebanon and Syria meet.

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Mahmoud Mabhouh was a middleman who moved Iranian antiaircraft missiles and other weapons into the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, an Israeli military official says. His death remains a mystery.
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Flight recorders from an Ethiopian Airlines jet which crashed off the coast of Lebanon have been located, officials say. more …

Flight recorders from an Ethiopian Airlines jet which crashed off the coast of Lebanon have been located, officials say. more …

Sabotage is unlikely, says the nation’s president. The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed in the Mediterranean soon after taking off from Beirut.
Lebanon’s president said sabotage was “unlikely” in the crash of an [...]

PM Netanyahu distances himself from comments by a minister suggesting Israel was heading for a new war with Lebanon. more …

A bus carrying Syrian workers comes under fire in Lebanon and at least one person is shot dead, security sources say. more …