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By Cagil Kasapoglu Special to The Daily Star Saturday, July 04, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by BEIRUT: "I was shouting, screaming and extremely struggling with this stranger's arms squeezing my head, and his hands covering my mouth while he was trying to snatch my bag." Though this statement may sound like the climax of a movie script, it was made by an expatriate who was violently mugged in Gemmayzeh. Kristen Hope, 23, a freelance writer from France, told The Daily Star that she was attacked in a staircase of the Beirut district of Gemmayzeh as she was walking back home after a busy Friday night in May 2009. "I was alone and walking down to street, then I noticed someone approaching from my right hand side. I thought that he was one of the inhabitants going into one of the apartments where I was passing by, but all... [read full story]
Bath City pulled off one of the shocks of the FA Cup first round with a deserved 2-0 victory over Grimsby at Blundell Park on Saturday. Chris Holland and Darren Edwards got the goals for the Blue Square South giant-killers, who...
The crash is the worst in the airline's 75-year history, and the world's worst for almost a decade. The monument is made of a panel of glass, engraved with 228 swallows to symbolize the number of victims. It was installed in a...
