PARIS -- One person has died after attempting to cross the English Channel from a beach in northern France, local authorities said on Saturday, bringing the death toll this year in the perilous ...

In the aftermath of intense sectarian fighting, the eerily silent streets of Syria's southern province of Sweida are filled ...

BEIRUT -- Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, at the age of 69, according to the state-run National News Agency. The death was ...