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...could that passion for real estate also drag the nation down? After trebling in the decade to last October, the average U.K. house price fell for the sixth straight month in April, according to Nationwide, a British residential lender. At $354,000, that price is 1% lower than it was a year ago, marking the first annual fall since 1996. Banks, still nervous about lending to one another following the collapse of the U.S. subprime market, are being no less careful when it comes to their loan customers: tougher lending criteria and higher mortgage rates have discouraged British house hunters...
...families live in the same tin shacks they occupied under white supremacy. Most have no running water, sanitation or meaningful health care. In this sea of unmet expectation, Muyumba says South Africans vent their frustration on the only group more vulnerable than them: foreigners. As Africa's most developed nation, South Africa has long been a magnet for refugees and economic migrants. Since 2000, some 800,000 Zimbabweans have joined the tens of thousands of immigrants from Mozambique, Malawi, Nigeria, Congo and Somalia already in South Africa. Many of them have shared Muyumba's plight in recent weeks...
...commerce from one side of the border to the other and back again. In other words, Tex-Mex is more than a style of cooking down there - it's an entire culture, and what looks like a bright line on the map is actually an indefinite blend of one nation into another...
...entrenched social ills that afflict Naples - most notably a trash-collection emergency that has left rubbish heaps piling up on sidewalks. Naples' litany of urban blights have made life increasingly unpleasant for locals, and tarnished the international image of both the city and the entire nation...
...become a habit in Vladimir Putin's Russia to splash cash on sports events, using them them to boost the nation's morale in the tradition of the Soviet Union in its heyday. And there was certainly an opportunity for crowing, just last week, when Russia's Zenit St. Petersburg won a 2-0 victory over Glasgow Rangers in the UEFA Cup Final staged in Manchester. That trophy may be a lesser tournament than the Champion's League, but that didn't stop both Prime Minister Putin and his President-consort Dmitri Medvedev from celebrating Zenit...