Residents of the northern city of Tripoli are opposing a new building project on the city’s public waterfront, saying it would rob locals of access to the free coastal strip.

The government is ready to cooperate to facilitate the registration of Palestinian associations operating in the country.

Hamas urged Egypt Wednesday to reopen the border crossing with the Gaza Strip that was closed after a suspected militant attack on Egyptian policemen near the frontier earlier this week.

Syria’s opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people Wednesday by firing rockets that released deadly fumes over rebel-held Damascus suburbs, killing men, women and children as they slept.

Gunmen, including three in police uniform, steal $3 million in gold and platinum from a warehouse in Medellin, northwestern Colombia, police say.

A young German woman who was attacked by a shark and had her right arm bitten off died Wednesday at a hospital in Hawaii, medics said.

Step by step, the once-shunned officials of Tunisia’s old order have returned to the political scene and are turning up the pressure on the governing Islamist party Ennahda to make way for them.

Extremist Islamist groups are expected to gain more ground in Lebanon as long as the Syrian crisis drags on and Hezbollah continues to fight alongside the regime, analysts told The Daily Star.

From the elephant to the mayfly, biologists say there is a general rule about longevity: The bigger the animal, the longer it lives.

Researchers have found what they say are specialized bone tools made by Neanderthals in Europe thousands of years before modern humans are thought to have arrived to share such skills.