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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- This Persian Gulf sheikdom, in the middle of a massive building and tourism boom, has a big sewage problem. By one estimate, some $300 billion in new projects are going up in Dubai in the next 10 years -- including the world's tallest building and a man-made archipelago of luxury homes on islands shaped like palm trees. Stefania Bianchi/The Wall Street Journal Every day, hundreds of tanker trucks line up for almost two miles at the three approaches to Dubai's treatment plant, to dump sewage. .But Dubai's single, 30-year-old sewage-treatment plant isn't keeping up. Sewage...

On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus was a regrettable situation that might ultimately help shed light on the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya. “We will unravel all the threads of this in time,” Krauthammer said. “We’re just in the first few hours, but I think it’s worth noting what we do know. This is the end of a career of a truly great American. He did something that hadn’t been done by a general since the Inchon landing in...

A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials. Court documents and other records have identified many of these visitors as belonging to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and other Islamic militant organizations. The IPT made the discovery combing through millions of White House visitor log entries. IPT compared the visitors' names with lists of known radical Islamists. Among the visitors were officials representing groups

WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats. Multimedia Video Feature Watching Syria’s War.Related At War Blog: Heat-Seeking Missiles in Syria: The SA-7 in Action with Rebels (October 15, 2012) As Tension Escalates, Turkey Issues a Ban on All Syrian Aircraft (October 15, 2012) Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news...

A video posted online appears to show a Verizon picketer placing his young daughter in front of an oncoming truck — presumably carrying non-union employees — and then taunting the passengers with profanity-laced statements.

Death: Timothy Hampton was involved in monitoring nuclear activity A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination. Timothy Hampton, 47, a scientist involved in monitoring nuclear activity, was found dead last week at the bottom of a stairwell in Vienna. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224377/British-nuclear-experts-17th-floor-UN-death-plunge-suicide.html#ixzz0ViLg5dUu

WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung heirs was a 6-year-old slave girl valued soon afterward at $475. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Interactive A Paper Trail to the White House Interactive Graphic The Family Tree of Michelle Obama, the First Lady Related Help Fill in the Gaps of this Remarkable History Blog The Caucus The latest on President Obama, the new administration and other news from Washington and around the...

RICHMOND, Va. - The billionaire co-founder of the Black Entertainment Television mocked Democrat Creigh Deeds' occasional stuttering at a fundraiser she held for Deeds' Republican opponent in the governor's race, Bob McDonnell. In a YouTube video, Sheila Johnson says Virginia needs a governor "who can really communicate, and Bob McDonnell can communicate." Then she tells a small crowd of wealthy donors, "The other people I talk to, especially his op-op-op-o-opponent, di-di-did this all through my interview with him." After muted laughter among the guests, she adds, "He could not articulate what needed to be done."

By CHRISTOPHER KEATING The Hartford Courant September 4, 2009 E-mail Print Share Text size It all started with late-night solitaire at the state Capitol Monday. And the fallout still hasn't stopped. Two Democratic legislators were playing solitaire on their state-issued computers Monday night during a late-night debate on the state budget, and an Associated Press photo that showed the solitaire games soon whipped around the nation on the Internet. From there it was a short hop to national cable TV news. Now there are calls for apologies — and for new rules regarding computer games at the Capitol. Republican Thomas...

<p>MIAMI (Reuters) – Police in a Florida city used the promise of economic stimulus checks to lure 76 people to their arrest on a variety of outstanding warrants.</p> <p>The Fort Lauderdale Police Department set up "Operation Show Me the Money" to round up people wanted on charges ranging from second-degree murder to guns and drug charges to failure to pay child support.</p>

Freep this Orlando Sentinel Poll - A or F? First 100 days What grade would you give the president after 100 days? A -- He's been just what this country needed. (10546 responses) 36.9% B -- He's done much more good than bad. (2300 responses) 8.1% C -- He's been mediocre. (231 responses) 0.8% D -- The bad easily outweighs the good. (1017 responses) 3.6% F -- He's been a disaster. (14473 responses) 50.7% 28567 total responses (Results not scientific) (Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...

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Freep this Orlando Sentinel Poll - A or F? First 100 days Orlando Sentinel ^ | 4/24/09 | none Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 8:41:31 AM by ilgipper http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/todaysbuzz/friday/ (Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...

Freep this Orlando Sentinel Poll - A or F? First 100 days Orlando Sentinel ^ | 4/24/09 | none Posted on Friday, April 24, 2009 8:41:31 AM by ilgipper http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/todaysbuzz/friday/ (Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...

OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL 'GIVE' creating youth brigades? Service corps expansion gives opponents shivers Posted: April 11, 2009 9:25 pm Eastern Supporters of an Americorps expansion plan pending in Congress laud its efforts to "leverage" federal dollars to boost state, local and other resources to "address national and local challenges," while critics say its fine print secretly would create an "Obama-styled army of community organizers modeled after Saul Alinsky's 'Peoples Organizations.'" So which is it? In an era in which Congress can approve thousands of pages of legislation spending hundreds of billions of dollars without reading the proposal, there seems to...