• In my view, heartland capital cities and university towns are the best bargains in America.

    FORBES: A Week In The American Heartland

  • The public-transport system is one that most capital cities can only dream of.

    BBC: Beijing traffic jam

  • Six out of 11 African countries reported declines of at least 25% in HIV prevalence among 15-24-year-olds in capital cities.

    BBC: HIV positive woman in India

  • Earlier, research firms RP Data and Rismark reported house prices in capital cities rose 0.2% in March, but were flat over the first quarter.

    WSJ: Australia Housing to Drag on Growth

  • And Mr. Candy says the wealthy increasingly see real estate in major capital cities as a relatively safe place to invest their assets, even during turbulent times.

    WSJ: The Price of Global High-End Living

  • The Romantic ideal of the soul-crunching beach is not hard to find outsidethe capital cities, since every state has their fair share of stunning coastal strips and semi-wilderness.

    BBC: Shore thing: Australia��s beach obsession

  • Its Villages are retail destinations near European capital cities.

    FORBES: Malkin's Outlet Shopping Empire

  • Meanwhile house prices in most capital cities have soared.

    ECONOMIST: Marriage

  • An interesting feature of the pre-trial news conference in The Hague was a video link with Kinshasa and Bangui, the capital cities of the DRC and the Central African Republic (CAR) respectively.

    BBC: Defiant Jean-Pierre Bemba gets his day in court

  • And just 50 pounds of high purity uranium smaller than a soccer ball could destroy the downtown of all our capital cities and kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of individuals.

    WHITEHOUSE: VP Biden Welcomes Nuclear Summit Participants

  • Matches are played in purpose-built arenas, with the capital cities of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland hosting the Cardiff Devils, Belfast Giants and Edinburgh Capitals before audiences of between 5, 000 to 8, 000 partisan fans.

    CNN: Ice hockey's David faces Goliathan challenge

  • Ensor's parade may well reflect the tradition of religious processionals, including the bawdy rites of Mardi Gras, and the more secular, nationalist pageantry of "Joyous Entry" paintings that for centuries had commemorated the triumphant return of militia or monarchs to their capital cities.

    WSJ: A Macabre Kingdom of Masks | James Ensor | Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 | By Mary Tompkins Lewis

  • Mr. Hong: It's one of the most dynamic and convenient cities to work and live in because it's good for both family life and work life, and is in the middle of the Asia region, right next door to China and within a four-hour flight to most of the region's capital cities.

    WSJ: Pimco's Guiding Asia-Pacific's Investor Evolution: Ki Myung Hong

  • "I think capital cities around the UK all have film units now and they are good as they make it much easier for a production to deal with one agency in a city to secure permission to film in streets and buildings, " said Mr Morris, who started his career as a filmmaker for Channel 4.

    BBC: Cardiff Film Unit launched to cope with TV demand

  • Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites - Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan - linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities of Nara and Kyoto, reflect the fusion of Shinto, rooted in the ancient tradition of nature worship in Japan, and Buddhism, which was introduced from China and the Korean Peninsula.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • As happened in April, when Mr Chavez the country's democratically elected president was briefly deposed by the army before being reinstated, crowds loyal to the president have surrounded television stations in the capital and other cities, protesting about their anti-Chavez coverage.

    ECONOMIST: The pressure mounts on Chavez

  • To attract foreign investment and help foreign firms avoid garment-export taxes, Bangladesh's government set up special economic zones in Dhaka, the capital, and surrounding cities.

    WSJ: Before Bangladesh Collapse, Some Clothing Retailers Fled Risk

  • More commonly now you just have regular folk going on cultural tourism vacations, and they really discovered the African cultural center of cities like Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, which is famous as being one of the most rich cities in African cultural heritage in the Americas.

    NPR: Afro-Brazilian, African-American Ties

  • The rebound in commercial-property prices in Tokyo and other large cities has driven capital spending to new heights.

    ECONOMIST: Bank of Japan

  • Instead the new government said it will build lines to connect Thailand's capital to its other big cities.

    ECONOMIST: Politics this week

  • English Heritage plan to take the Blue Plaque scheme to three more cities outside the capital in the near future.

    BBC: News | Entertainment | Blue plaque to honour Lennon

  • Florence is the regional capital, but other renowned cities and town such as Pisa and its leaning tower or Lucca with its fortress walls add their own particular history and charm.

    BBC: Living in: Tuscany

  • The alleged French obsession with odd culinary dishes which earned its people the term "frog" in the English vernacular, has earned Paris the reputation as the world's gastronomic capital, even when other cities now arguably have equal claim to the title.

    BBC: Rolling out the old cliches

  • With apologies to the less wonkish, China is using physical capital as a loss leader in order to grow cities that will produce network effects will in turn foster the human capital that really makes a country rich.

    FORBES: China, Destroyer-of-Worlds

  • The capital was quiet overnight but other cities, including Manchester and Merseyside, were the scene of violence and looting.

    BBC: Boris warns on police cuts

  • Faster emergency response times also allow cities to stretch precious capital budgets.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Zillow, like Clear Capital, covers a spectrum of cities in the Zillow Home Value Index 200 metro areas to be exact.

    FORBES: What Can Home Owners Learn From Case-Shiller's Home Price Index?

  • This could make life very expensive in big cities like the the capital, where many residents already work two jobs to cover their living costs.

    BBC: Fears of unrest after Iran cuts food and fuel subsidies

  • The disturbances this time spread to cities away from the capital.

    BBC: Euro crisis: Greek despair over deeper cuts

  • Zangina is a member of the Shura Committee, the movement's governing body, and has coordinated "most of the most of the suicide attacks and bombings" in several cities, including the capital Abuja, Musa said.

    CNN: Nigeria captures top Boko Haram figure

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