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...Scotland have been mauled. Some depositors have taken fright, too. A day after the U.K. Treasury announced the nationalization of Bradford & Bingley and the sale of its branches to Spain's Banco Santander, Kusum Patel, a 50-year-old chef from Ilford, a gritty commuter suburb 9 miles (14.5 km) northeast of central London, withdrew all her savings and closed her account, as did several other customers. "They say it's going down. I've been hearing it on the radio," Patel fretted. "I haven't got a great amount of money, but the little bit I have is enough...
...Helsinki After Killings, a Crackdown In the wake of a second school shooting in 10 months--which claimed 11 lives at a trade school 180 miles (290 km) northwest of the capital--the government announced it will move to tighten Finland's lax gun laws by submitting amendments to Parliament that would restrict licensing and deepen background checks. The nation's strong hunting tradition has spurred one of the world's highest rates of gun ownership...
...wasn't your typical road trip. We left Baghdad at 5 a.m. Destination: Basra, Iraq's second largest city and only major port, 340 miles (550 km) to the southeast. The nighttime curfew had just ended when we--eight bodyguards, two interpreters, four journalists and four drivers--piled into our cars as the sun was coming...
...campaign office for Democratic congressional candidate Hank Eng is in Littleton, at the western end of Arapahoe County, which wraps around to the east of Denver before shooting 70 miles (112 km) out toward the prairie. Littleton is the county seat and one of Arapahoe's few remaining affluent suburbs. Eng's campaign operates out of a strip mall that has seen better days, wedged between Pathways Home Care Center and an unadventurous-looking storefront called Adventures in Dance...
...Dabbagh has no doubt that if he builds it, they will come. The governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) is one of the brains behind King Abdullah Economic City, a $27 billion development rising out of the desert 100 km north of Jeddah, and he can already envision the arrival of its first residents. "It won't be long before it starts taking shape," he says, of the city that, when completed 20 years from now, will be roughly the size of Washington, D.C., with a population of more than 1.5 million...