Angry youths continued on Saturday their protests against Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau head Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan's assassination on Friday by blocking roads in various regions throughout the country.

The youths had protested the murder on Friday by also blocking roads with burning tires and other barriers.

Anti-Syria Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir on Sunday urged the “rational brothers in the Shiite sect to save the country from the Iranian scheme and from the creeping woes that are being drawn by (Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan) Nasrallah's involvement in Syria.”

“I salute our heroic, free people in Syria,” Asir said during a sit-in he organized in downtown Beirut in support of the Syrian people.

An official said Tuesday that an employee of Lebanon's national airline MEA was fired after a passenger complained in a social media campaign that the worker humiliated travelers from the Philippines at the Beirut airport and told them over the loudspeaker, "Filipino people, stop talking."

The incident is part of what human rights groups say is widespread discrimination and abuse of foreign workers in Lebanon. More than 200,000 women from Asia and Africa work as maids in the country of 4 million people, said Nadim Houry, a researcher in Lebanon for the New York-based group Human Rights Watch.

WikiLeaks website has revealed that Israeli intelligence, Mossad, may have been involved in the 2010 Ethiopian plane crash off Beirut's shore, said various media reports on Sunday.

They said that the plane have been the victim of sabotage by Israeli intelligence because it mistakenly suspected that senior Hizbullah official Hashem Safieddine may have been on the flight.

Feesheh, a Jordan-based startup, is an online one-stop-shop for Arab musicians.

According to Co-Founder and CEO, Mrs. Nur Alfayez, it’s the first of its kind in the region, offering everything from guitars and other musical instruments, as well as music-related accessories and helpful English and Arabic content for musicians.

Beirut airport customs officials thwarted an attempt to smuggle seven kilograms of cocaine to Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported on Monday.

NNA said that a 24-year-old Lebanese man was carrying the drugs after arriving from Muscat aboard a Oman Air flight when he drew the suspicion of the officials.

Several members of the army were wounded on Friday as they were pursuing a wanted suspected in Beirut's southern suburbs of al-Ghobairi, with Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressing the security forces' determination to control security in Lebanon.

The Army Command announced that two officers and a number of soldiers were wounded in armed clashes that ensued during the pursuit.

Pope Benedict XVI prayed on Sunday that Middle East leaders work toward peace and reconciliation, stressing again the central theme of his visit to Lebanon, whose neighbor Syria is engulfed in a civil war.

"May God grant to your country, to Syria and to the Middle East the gift of peaceful hearts, the silencing of weapons and the cessation of all violence," the pope said at the end of mass on the final day of his trip to Lebanon, which was attended by President Michel Suleiman and a number of other officials.

Two people were wounded on Thursday in an armed clash in the Tariq al-Jadideh neighborhood in Beirut.

The army soon deployed in the area and contained the situation.

Beirut remains the media and technology incubator in the region. As an assertion of the capital’s role, the organizers of the corporate digital marketing conference DGTL#U have chosen Beirut to be the first stop in the road show around Arab cities including Kuwait, Jeddah, Muscat, Riyadh, amongst other countries, a press release said Wednesday.

Top international digital experts are meeting in Beirut to share significant case studies and success stories with marketing professionals from Lebanon: Phil Erhart from Apple, Ramzi Raad from TBWA\RAAD, Mike Al-Mefleh from RIM, William Kanaan from Google, Dani Risha from Impact BBDO, Jiri Voves from SocialBakers, Hassan Mikail from Aramex, Tarek Atrissi from Atrissi Design...