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...casino is located on a 24-hectare strip of land on the southern shore of Marina Bay, not far from the city's growing financial district at the mouth of the Singapore River. In February American casino operator Las Vegas Sands broke ground there on what will be the city's first integrated resort, scheduled to be completed in 2009. Beyond gambling, the Marina Bay Sands-composed of three nearly identical 50-story towers-will offer 2,500 hotel rooms, 93,000 sq m of convention space, two theaters, an ice-skating rink, shops and restaurants. A revitalized waterfront will...
...Gaza strip today, history is trauma. Decades of war, occupation and sectarian strife have turned it into a seething refugee camp, crippled by internecine conflict and poverty. But while Gaza's future seems as uncertain as its present, there is little disagreement about the splendor of its past...
...declared in an interview that "no one" in Hamas's leadership was "immune from a strike." Hamas took the threat to heart. Spokesman Ayman Taha also urged militants to stop using cars and gathering in open places where they could be spotted by Israeli aircraft circling over the Gaza strip. "We must be on high alert and very careful," he declared...
...their fury on Hamas, not Fatah, whose armed gangs are loosely tied to President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader preferred by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Bush Administration. Israeli jets scorched Gaza, killing Hamas militants as they prepared to launch rockets or while speeding through the dusty Mediterranean strip. They also blasted warehouses, schools and buildings where Hamas was thought to gather or store arms...
...creator, Hergé, was born one hundred years ago on Tuesday. Many credit Hergé, whose real name was Georges Remi, with inventing much of the visual grammar that defines modern comics. His books involve masterly plots and a depth of humor, artistry, detail and characterization. His iconic comic strip hero travelled the world fighting crime and ventured to the moon a full decade before Neil Armstrong...