LEBANESE anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido was killed yesterday when a bomb ripped through his car in western Beirut, security sources said.

ISRAELI air strikes killed 42 people across Lebanon yesterday, including 10 civilians hit on a southern bridge, on the sixth day of a bombardment that has wreaked the heaviest destruction in Lebanon for over 20 years.

Lebanon’s first parliamentary polls without heavy-handed Syrian influence began today.