PM Mikati's resignation bowl Lebanese politics in chaos

The news of Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati's resignation spurred fierce weekend clashes in his hometown, the coastal city of Tripoli.

Residents lobbed rockets and fired bullets at one another Saturday, leaving at least three people wounded, state news agency NNA reported.

The city is home to both Alawite and Sunni Muslims, and sectarian tensions have worsened in recent months as the civil war in neighboring Syria rages on.

Lebanon PM on regional instability

The Alawites support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Sunnis want his ouster.

The Lebanese government has remained officially neutral in the conflict -- even as it has firmly, but quietly, supported al-Assad.

And Mikati, while a Sunni, led that effort.

His departure, therefore, comes at a sensitive time for Lebanon.

Analysts say the longer the Syrian conflict rages, the more destabilized Lebanon will become.

Pakistani ex-president returned home to save nation in spite of death risk

Former President Pervez Musharraf stated his plan to run for office, saying he defied risks to save the country.

Musharraf landed in Karachi on Sunday after four years in deport. He faces against the law charges, Taliban have declared to unleash a "death squad" to kill him.

However, he said, he does not plan to escape again.

"I have put my life in danger and have come to Pakistan -- to you to be the rescuer of this country," he said at the airport. "I have come to save Pakistan."He blamed people who had doubted that he would return.

"There were buzz that I would not come -- where are those people now?" he asked. "I am here. I have returned."

At the airport, crowds danced, waved the nation's green flag and chanted Musharraf's name. Some people carried giant posters, plastered with his face.

"Inshallah (God willing) we will be successful if I have your support," he said.

LINDSAY LOHAN motionless CLUBBING

Lindsay Lohan nonstop her weekend of revels prior to rehab ... beating a club in Santa Monica previous night with a small number of friends ... includes her whispered new man, Avi Snow.

Source reported that Lindsay spent her Friday night drinking inside a club in San Diego, where spies say she asked to be served vodka from carafes, as a substitute of bottles, so she would not seen with alcohol bottles on her table.

It is not clear if Lindsay was drinking last night too. In the photo she's drinking San Pellegrino. 

Lilo has only just ongoing dating Snow and plays guitar for the indie band City of the Sun. It was his band's concert in New York last week that made Lindsay skips her flight back to Los Angeles ... which started the fetter response of events that led to her being late to court.