The slum is the focus of a looming showdown as municipal authorities and developers seek to raze it to the ground and replace it with office towers, luxury apartments and shopping malls.

A top Boeing executive warned a gathering of aerospace industry executives and legislators Tuesday that the state is becoming known as a "strike zone" and that the ongoing Machinists strike could drive assembly of Boeing's next airplane out of Washingt

We could begin with Peter Sastawnyuk. The 53-year-old businessman filled his £370,000 detached home with petrol canisters, sealed the locks, set tripwires and threatened to set the place alight. More than 40 of his neighbours were evacuated from the posh

"Drill, baby, drill" makes a good chant at a political convention -- or if you're the governor of an oil-wealthy, sparsely populated state such as Alaska.

THE view across the Brisbane River from the South Bank cultural precinct is a mess: a tangle of concrete roads masking a couple of heritage buildings at one end and, at the other, the grey institutional ugliness of the Queensland University of Technology