TALK OF THE TOWN: Hold the front page – sisters Lady Marina and Lady Amelia Windsor have started writing for fashion magazine Vogue By Charlotte Griffiths for The Mail on Sunday Published: 23:40 BST, 17 April 2021 | Updated: 00:24 BST, 18 April 2021 Hold the front page – two members of the Royal Family … Read more
World tour of food you do in your own kitchen: Alexandra Shulman discovers how everyone can be global chefs thanks to ingenious video cook-alongs A Cook’s Tour sees participants get a box of ingredients sent to their door The box is accompanied by instructions and a live video link to a cook-along They are guided … Read more
Tianjin, China – Container storage explosion On August 12, 2015, a series of explosions killed approximately 173 people and injured hundreds of others at a container storage station in the city’s port. Responders to initial reports of a fire at the site were not able to bring the blaze under control because, unknown to the firefighters, … Read more
Six months post-blast Beirut, the city once known as the Paris of the Middle East, remains in tatters. Large parts of the historic Middle Eastern capital were destroyed on August 4 when 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port. The explosion, which was felt 264km away in Cyprus, left 204 people dead, over 6,500 … Read more
Chemical stockpile that caused Beirut explosion ‘was shipped by business with ties to figures linked to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’ Three figures with ties to the Syrian regime shared London office with Savaro Ltd Savaro reportedly purchased 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that blew up George Haswani and Imad and Mudalal Khuri are Syrian-Russian nationals They … Read more
Israel ‘launches air strikes against Iranian military targets in Syria killing six’ Syria’s official news agency reported explosions in the central town of Masyaf Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said attack killed six foreign paramilitaries Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out dozens of airstrikes in Syria By Joe Davies For Mailonline Published: 16:51 GMT, 26 … Read more
Arab Pop Idol judge’s husband is charged by police after shooting dead a masked intruder armed with a fake gun in Lebanon Fadi El-Hachem shot Syrian Mohammed Hassan al-Moussa 16 times in January Dentist Mr El-Hachem is the husband of former-Arab Idol judge Nancy Ajram Mr El-Hachem charged with ‘intentional killing, but in legitimate self-defence’ Mr … Read more
Born in the Syrian capital Damascus and educated in Beirut, he was a child of the Middle East, without a single tie to Britain. But in the decades since then, Wafic Said, now 80, has become one of this country’s most munificent philanthropists — as he has yet again demonstrated. The billionaire financier and businessman … Read more
He’s one of the breakout stars on Gogglebox Australia. And now Jad Nehmetallah has revealed that he has an exciting and charitable new project in the works, with some of MasterChef’s biggest names. Jad, 34, is launching a new cookbook called Bake for Beirut, which will help raise funds for those devastated by the Beirut … Read more
Socialite Sabine Getty launches charity campaign with other creatives to help rebuild Lebanon’s communities after revealing her mother was in Beiruit at the time of the explosion which killed more than 200 Tatler’s Editor-at-large Sabine Getty, 36, has created a charity to unite Lebanese Creatives for Lebanon aims to help the Lebanese people displaced by … Read more