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The city of Homs is bearing the brunt of Bashar al-Assad's bloody crackdown.

Das "One World Trade Center", das gerade auf dem New Yorker "Ground Zero" entsteht, wird das mit Abstand teuerste Bürogebäude der Welt werden. Der 549 Meter hohe Turm wird die Lücke füllen, die die Anschläge von 9/11 in die Skyline New Yorks gerissen haben. Doch das nationale Trauma lässt sich nicht so einfach reparieren.

The price tag for One World Trade Center, the signature skyscraper under construction at Ground Zero in New York, has risen to more than $3.8 billion, making it by far the world's most expensive new office tower.

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came to ground zero of the housing crisis Tuesday to assail rival Newt Gingrich over his ties to the government-backed mortgage companies that helped make it worse, a message Romney has been pushing since he landed in the state. But that meant he also had to talk about banks - and he continued what's become a habit of ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- An 80-story skyscraper under construction at ground zero will have to stop at seven stories unless the developer can line up more tenants, planners said Monday, adding to problems that have plagued the $11.7 billion World Trade Center project....

A VIDEO ad for the new 9/11 movie "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" that had been playing near the site where the Twin Towers fell was gone Saturday after critics blasted it as insensitive.

We're going with the majority on this one; it is rather insensitive. With Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close out in theaters now, ads for the film are plastered everywhere across the country, but mainly in major cities like Chicago, Los Angeles … and of course, New York City. While the studio has every right to promote [...]

Mexican Rafael Hernandez, 49, died on September 25 of obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and heart enlargement, said the city's medical examiner's spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove.

From the air the city looks like any other on a Sunday afternoon-many children were out playing soccer and thousands of motorcycles could be seen...

"Iowa effect" drives fears of an agricultural real estate bubble

SIOUX COUNTY, IOWA (Reuters) - If there is an epicenter of the nation's farmland boom, it can be found here amid the rolling hills of northwest Iowa.

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has generated a lot of news of late, e.g. the announcement that a team had found what it believes to be a particle that traveled faster than he speed of light, an actual new particle, and of course the seemingly never-ending storyline associated with the hopeful discovery of the el...

Pro-democracy protesters hope the presence of the Arab League monitors will prevent the usual scores of deathsSyrian activists have called for mass nationwide protests as Arab League monitors prepare to spend their first Friday in the country visiting some of its most volatile cities.The first day of the weekend in Syria has traditionally been the most violent of each week in the nine-month upr...

Filed under: Robert Griffin III, TMZ Sports You'd think Baylor king Robert Griffin III would go wild after winning the Heisman Trophy this weekend in NYC -- but TMZ has learned, the star QB went straight to Ground Zero instead ... to pay his respects.Griffin family sources tell TMZ, RG3 and several close family members made a beeline from the Best Buy Theate...

I am in DC covering the Take Back the Capitol "99 in DC" events. On Tuesday I wrote about the efforts of unemployed people and...

When it comes to the presence of religion in the public square, Jon Stewart has long been something of a moderate. He's criticized atheists opposed to a crucifix at ground zero, and he's gone after Fox News for manufacturing controversy over President Obama's supposedly "Godless" Thanksgiving address. But on Tuesday's episode of "The Daily Show," Stewart came down on the side of the secularists...

“Subversive”and “revolutionary” aren’t terms one associates with Vancouver. But this pleasant, laid-back city is at the forefront of progressive politics today. And not just because it’s the unlikely place that first inspired the Occupy Wall Street protests that politically energized a generation.

Lower Manhattan residents who live near the Occupy Wall Street protest are increasingly aggrieved about the protesters’ daily drumming sessions.

If it was not so humiliating, Australia would have cheekily called this their moment of 9/11. True, their exalted team wasn't exactly razed to Ground Zero on Black Friday; but a 21/9 collapse was equally calamitous, leaving them with virtually no place to hide their faces. It's ironic, nay amusing, that the last-wicket pair added 26 precious runs at that delicate juncture; it's exactly the sa...

The GOP presidential candidates choose an apt locale to debate the economy: In Michigan, a center of the nation's jobs and housing woes.