Beirut- Hopes were high Saturday that Lebanon would have a new cabinet. Tentative agreement has been reached on the distribution of seats between the majority, opposition and President Michel Suleiman.

Beirut - The focus will again be the formation of the government . Many expected the government formation will be announced either on Saturday or Sunday , but it looks like this may take a little bit longer . So

Beirut - Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is set to announce the formation of the national unity cabinet by the middle of the week , after more than one month of very intensive consultations

Beirut/ Damascus - Basil the baker is not a happy bread maker. "Everything is more difficult to afford now, and it will get worse," he said, amid the dough and ovens of his bakery in the middle class district of

By: Marie Colvin in MosulBaghdad - American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on

The finalisation of the New York Stock Exchange Euronext buy-in to the Doha Securities Market (DSM), calculated at $250m for a 25% stake, marks the end of a complicated round of global back-and-forth which saw the market being pursued by

Israel's security officials this week saw that not even the highest walls and strictest checks can stop an attacker who lives in their midst, as a resident of the city killed three Israelis with a bulldozer