Friday, September 25, 2009 SYDNEY: A pair of Australian friends have broken the world record for endurance handshakes.Jack Tsonis and Lindsay Morrison clasped hands on Monday morning and started shaking for over 12 hours.They were trying to raise $10,000 for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Sydney's Wayside Chapel.Under rules from Guinness, the endurance handshakers were not required to look each other in the eye or exchange pleasantries during the attempt. However, they had to maintain a good grip on each others palms and continuously move them up and down… even when one of them was going to the toilet.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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