Favara / DPA Ten years ago, Favara was a sleepy dormitory town of 30,000 in Italy with a crumbling and rapidly depopulating historic centre surrounded by the messy urban sprawl that is common across Italy. It has become an unlikely tourist hotspot, thanks to an enterprising local couple whose buzzing contemporary art centre, Farm Cultural Park, has reawakened civic …

  Beirut / AFP Lebanese like Hamza al-Sees should have no problem finding a beach to while away the summer in a country stretching along the Mediterranean. But as private developers have gobbled up seafront land and families complain of ever-more polluted waters, many Lebanese say it is cheaper and cleaner to fly abroad than go to the beach at …

  Fujairah / WAM Fujairah’s quest to develop its energy sector within the UAE’s national energy strategy has catapulted the country to become a world leading bunkering hub, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah, said on Thursday. “The launch on Wednesday of the first Very Large Crude Carrier Jetty on the Indian Ocean …