Facebook Wants to Power Web-Wide Apps

FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for his company’s social networking site: serving as the platform to enable applications to run almost anywhere their developers want.
Zuckerberg, who received a rock star welcome before speaking here at the f8 Facebook developers conference yesterday, outlined a plan for his company in which the [...]

US wants Lebanon to talk to Israel about Shebaa

BEIRUT: A US initiative to resolve the dispute over the occupied Shebaa Farms is still on the table, and is being considered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, An-Nahar newspaper’s correspondent in Washington on Wednesday quoted an American official as saying.
“The essence of the proposal is that Lebanon engages in indirect negotiations over the [...]

Lebanon’s ‘Soldiers of Virtue’

By FOUAD AJAMI
July 23, 2008

There have been a dozen prisoner exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel since the early 1990s, but Samir Kuntar was always a case apart. In 1979 Kuntar and his companions killed a policeman, kidnapped a young father, Danny Haran, and killed him in front of his 4-year-old daughter. Then Kuntar turned to [...]

Obama warns US president can’t solve Mideast crisis alone

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Stephen Collinson
Agence France Presse
AMMAN: White House hopeful Barack Obama stepped into the maelstrom of the Middle East Tuesday, warning the next US president could not just snap his fingers and make peace, as fresh violence rocked the region. The Democratic senator’s high-risk tour to prove his commander in chief mettle [...]

What Could Jesus Learn from Barack Obama?

While Barack Obama is in the Middle East, he brings to mind another great leader who made waves there not too long ago. That’s right: Jesus Christ.
While many people think Obama draws inspiration from Jesus, I view it the other way around. I mean, what could Christ learn from Obama?
There were times when Jesus was [...]