Big outfits including Dell, British Airways (nyse: BAB - news - people ) and NASA have built mashups, too.
By delaying implementation until next year, the UK government won British Airways (nyse: BAB - news - people ) some breathing space until Heathrow Terminal 5 is opened next March, which will give the airline extra capacity.
Africa probably isn't is that profitable a run, but Willie Walsh 's British Airways (nyse: BAB - news - people ) and its various subsidiaries and franchises, Air France-KLM Group (nyse: AKH - news - people ) and Egyptair all stand to profit from Kinshasa's misfortune.
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If you're wondering why Walsh doesn't just pay the whole pension problem off with the contents of his war chest, British Airways (nyse: BAB - news - people ) says it needs to be kept "to deal with a difficult situation, " such as the financial bruising the airline received after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad captured Bab al-Hawa in July.
Opposition activists and fighters reported shelling in the Al-Sha'ar, Bab al-Hadid, and Anjara areas and in central neighborhoods near the historic Aleppo castle.
Col Gaddafi's son Saif al-Arab is reported to have died at his villa in the Bab al-Aziziya compound.
Libyan rebel fighters opposed to the regime of Colonel Muammar al-Gadhafi moved one step closer to victory on Tuesday after having breached the Bab Al-Aziziya compound where the elusive leader has his residence and was thought to be located.
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He is a Salafist street preacher in his 30s who owns a small mobile phone shop in Bab al-Tabbana.
While Gadhafi remains at large, his compound, Bab al-Aziziya, remains out of rebel control, as street fighting intensified during Monday.
The crossing, which lies opposite the Syrian border post of Bab al-Hawa, has been the scene of clashes in recent months.
Col Gaddafi's comments came not long after Nato warplanes repeatedly pounded targets in and around his Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli.
Veteran activist Nabeel Rajab reportedly stood near Bab al-Bahrain chanting anti-government slogans, while others carried signs reading: "Your silence is killing al-Khawaja".
The raid on the Bab al-Mua'dam exchange also killed the small son of one of the workers there, who lived next door.
Inside Aleppo, Syria's largest city, the rebels "continued clashes today with the regime forces in Salaheddine district" and Bab el-Nasr neighborhood, killing a rebel commander, he added.
In the centre of Misrata stands the famous sculpture of a giant fist, crushing an American fighter jet, that once adorned Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli.
The activists had said they wanted to build a village on the site, calling it Bab al-Shams (Gateway to the Sun), after a famous novel about Palestinian history.
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Refugees in the Bab al-Salam camp just inside Syria can see the Turkish refugee camps from the roofs of their buildings, but Turkey for now will not accept them.
It is still unknown whether Gadhafi remains in the compound or has escaped, maybe through one of the tunnels that make up a vast network thought to exist under Bab Al-Aziziya.
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If the jihadists were to gain control of it, they could threaten the Bab al-Mandab strait at the foot of the Red Sea, through which much of the oil supplied to the West is shipped.
Iran and Eritrea signed a strategic alliance last year that grants Iranian Revolutionary Guard units basing rights in the strategically vital Bab al-Mandab strait that controls the chokepoint connecting the Indian Ocean with the Red Sea.
Five thousand people were gathering in a depot close to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, while 2, 000 were at the border crossing of Reyhanli, which houses one of the largest refugee camps set up by Ankara for Syrians fleeing the violence, officials said.
Attackers in the Aleppo province city of al-Bab fired rockets at the main branch of President Bashar al-Assad's ruling Baath party Saturday, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
At its inaugural election rally in Algiers, 2, 000 supporters crammed into the Atlas cinema in the working-class Bab El Oued district.
The camp, which protesters dubbed Bab Alshams, sprung up Thursday, in a roughly 12-square kilometer (5-square mile) area Israel has dubbed E1.
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The two companies will develop the Bab field, a potentially tricky project because it contains so-called sour gas, a poisonous and foul smelling product.
The 30-year venture to treat the potentially deadly gases in Bab also puts Europe's largest energy company in a strong position to renew its role in the UAE's largest onshore oil concession, on which the Bab field stands, when that contract comes up for renewal early next year.
In addition to disrupting America's counter-terrorism activities from its 1, 800-strong base in Djibouti, a regional war would likely jeopardize passage through the strategically important Bab el Mandeb Strait, which is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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