BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's health minister says more than 70 people were killed and more than 3,000 were injured in the huge explosion that rocked Beirut. The blast Tuesday flattened much of the city ...

Ammonium nitrate on its own is not itself classified as dangerous. PARIS and LONDON -- An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the face of a ...

The city of Beirut was rocked by one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. In a matter of seconds, a massive blast tore through Lebanon’s capital, killing 218 people, injuring over 7,000, ...

The Lebanese have never seen accountability for any of the country's gravest crimes. Justice—when pursued at all—is politicized, obstructed, and often denied. Five years since the Beirut explosion, ...

Residents of Lebanon’s capital struggle to find material and cash to repair the damage—and to revive the city’s spirit The shockwave unleashed last August by one of the biggest nonnuclear explosions ...

The Getty has brought together five Artemisia Gentileschi paintings for the occasion. Artemisia Gentileschi, Hercules and Omphale (ca. 1635–37), being restored by the Getty’s senior conservator of ...

The death toll from a powerful explosion in Beirut Tuesday has reached 100 and is still climbing. At least 4,000 others were injured. While no one knows yet exactly how many people died in the blast, ...

(CNN) — After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured by glass and coated in debris during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, the monumental oil-on-canvas, painstakingly restored ...