by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 16, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Washington DC, USA A supposedly drunk driver crashes his SUV into 6 parked cars on a quiet DC street at 2am. Can you guess what the scene resembles: One resident told the [TV] station, ‘It sounded like someone was bowling with cars. ‘A whole bunch of...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 15, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
New York, USA The 500 Block of Main Street is literally outside the back door of one of Buffalo’s premier hotels, The Hyatt. […] Many are surprised to see that most of the storefronts on that block of Main Street are either vacant or closed. Some are...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 14, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
North Carolina, USA In what can be described as incredible luck, a girl’s decision to stay up late instead of heading to bed has saved her life: A driver plows through the front gate of an apartment complex, clips one unit, then flips the truck into another...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 14, 2011 | Transportation
The people over at SleepingInAirport.net have been compiling the best and worst of airport overnights for the past 15 years with Beirut’s airport making it into the top 5 Middle East airports in terms of ‘snooze-ability’. Here is 2011’s top 5:...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 9, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Athens, Greece Mark Corcoran, a foreign correspondent for ABC News Australia, has visited financially stricken Athens and has come up with his very own comparison cliche: Just beyond the tourist haunts lie the inner-city precincts that have morphed into the new...