Burj Dubai

"This is the latest available in images from the Burj Dubai, already the tallest building in the world with just a year to go to completion. Nothing demonstrates the amazing ambition of this city better than this iconic building which is the centre piece of the new Downtown...

Security tightens more as Olympics get under way

"Security forces squeezed their grip on China a notch tighter Friday for the start of the Olympics, edging up restrictions in the capital and imposing much tougher ones in a restive Muslim area in the country's far west.The Beijing Games' glittering curtain raiser went off...

Trouble In The Strait

"Trouble In The Strait Of Hormuz Terrell E. Arnold 1-15-8 The Strait of Hormuz has been an important waterway since the earliest development of maritime trade. That means if you scan the pages of histories, or the countless clay tablets that speak of great historic empires...

Everyone Escapes Sudden Building Collapse in Toronto

It's amazing that everyone got out ok considering the amount of damage that happened to the building."A building on the Danforth was reduced to rubble overnight after it unexpectedly caved in, forcing residents to run for their lives. Incredibly, everyone managed to scramble...

Nouvel's 53rd St. tower design unveiled

Dezeen has several renderings of this very tall and spiky tower designed by the french architect for midtown manhattan.  "Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the formal selection of Paris-based architect Jean Nouvel as the designer of a new...

RSPB Makes Investment in Dee Wildlife

The RSPB purchased 194 hectares of saltmarsh and adjacent farmland at Burton Marsh Farm, which will in addition allow access to manage around 1,000 hectares of grazable saltmarsh on the English side of the estuary. This strategic purchase now connects the existing land...

Violent Crime Is Up - Cue the theorizing.

"DURING THE 1990s and the early part of this decade, crime fell and stayed down -- and politicians of all stripes claimed credit. Conservatives attributed the drop to tough sentencing policies that swelled the national prison population. The Clinton administration cited its...