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...PORTCULLIS HOUSE Built to hold new offices for members of Parliament at a cost of $440 million, Portcullis House was the most expensive office block in Britain when it was finished in 2000. Imposing and elegant, it surrounds an airy courtyard, and seamlessly incorporates the ultramodern Westminster Underground station below...
...long lived under the shadow of Russian tanks, are likely to share Saakashvili's distaste for the deal brokered by the "Old Europeans". While France and Germany saw reasons to blame both sides for the Georgia debacle, Poland last week rushed to sign a pact with the U.S. to station missile interceptors on its soil, provoking threats of retaliation from Moscow...
...Algeria's security services. According to unconfirmed Algerian media reports, last Sunday 40 AQIM attacked a convoy of elite army and police units in eastern Algeria, killing 12 of its members - including the region's security chief, Lieutenant Colonel Rahmouni Mohammed. Similarly, a suicide bomber took out a police station in the Kabyle town of Tizi Ouzou August 3; though no one was killed, 25 people were injured, including four officers...
...Katerina Emmons, who was commentating for a Czech TV station, dropped her jaw, unable to speak. That's kind of a problem when you're an announcer. But in this case, silence said everything. "I was looking at the score, and thinking, 'No, no,' " she says. " 'Go away.' " She leaned across a rail to hug her husband. "The very first thing I told him was that it just wasn't meant to be," Emmons says. "I was like, 'What the hell is this...
...steamy southern Iraqi port of Khur al-Zubar, and the normally sleepy docks jump to life. Teams of workers scramble over ships arriving mainly from Dubai, Bahrain and other points around the Persian Gulf to connect hoses for the flow of diesel, kerosene and gasoline. Old-fashioned gas-station tickers beside the ships clatter as thousands of liquid tons begin moving...