From the top of a skyscraper in the center of the city at night, the lights of apartment buildings and office towers twinkle all the way to the horizon.
It was the third fire of the night in the city of about 66, 000 people and struck shortly after firefighters fought another blaze about a half-mile away.
An Abbottabad resident even tweeted about the unusual sound of helicopters flying over the city in the middle of the night.
As a result, the city attracts thousands of "stag night" tourists each year, who are often responsible for noise pollution, garbage and vomit-covered streets.
In order to understand their mindset, I joined them as they raced around New York City in the middle of the night.
The four were believed to have been the only victims until the mother of 15-year-old Ana Gabriela Nataret Ramirez told Milenio Television lateTuesday that their daughter had died in hospital after being found covered with apparent dog bites near the Cerro de la Estrella park in the poor southeastern Mexico City district of Iztapalapa on the night of Dec. 16.
He may now get his wish in the January transfer window as the success of Mario Balotelli and Sergio Aguero has left him a marginalized figure at City, while Mancini said on the night of the Bayern incident that Tevez was "finished" with the club.
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Later, however, he noted that as he passed New York City storefronts at night by car of late, he found them virtually empty of shoppers.
In the latest clashes, gunmen and Iraqi federal police faced off Thursday night in the city of Falluja, a predominantly Sunni city in Iraq's Anbar province, Iraqi police told CNN.
The Port Authority closed its four city-area airports Monday night because of flooding.
Last spring the retired New York City teacher woke in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.
For travellers, the main appeal of a car share service is being able to find vehicles scattered around a city at every hour of every day and night.
Part urban ramble, part bar crawl, the route takes in South Bank views and a hidden basement drinking den, and is designed to showcase the beauty of the city as it fades to night.
Major contributing factors to this appalling toll were the clay construction of much of the infrastructure in the city and the fact that the tremor struck in the middle of the night.
In 1913, just 100 years ago, Jackson opened his own purpose-built theatre in the centre of the city, ever after known as the Birmingham Rep, with a production of Twelfth Night.
"It's not about trying to make this city proud of your team tonight, but every night, " he said.
Except the beautiful Plaza Mayor, a landmark in a city of beautiful squares, becomes a dormitory at night.
In these photos, you can see the city lights of Minneapolis and Chicago glittering against the night sky.
And the people of our city stood in the dark each night, waving flags, and calling out, "God bless you, " as the trucks hurtled by.
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San Diego police said a man matching the suspect's description had tried to steal a boat from one of the city's marinas on Wednesday night.
Others gathered in Munich and the northern city of Hamburg, where they braved a cold night Sunday after setting up camp outside the HSH Nordbank headquarters.
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Shankari Devi from the Indian city of Udaipur arrived on Sunday and spent the night in the open but her conclusion this morning was that "we had a good bath so all the troubles were worth it".
The city of Oak Creek held a vigil on Tuesday night at the Oak Creek Community Center and tied it into the previously scheduled National Night Out event, an annual event to celebrate the community and public safety.
This sequence, as much as any other (and there were so many others similar to this one), typified the Miami Heat's 91-85 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night in Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
That city is expecting 9 to 15 inches of snow Monday night into Tuesday.
Police were called after two men had a row outside a nightclub in Cascavel, a city in the southern state of Parana, on Saturday night.
Just up the road lies the splendidly dishevelled Bar Marsella, late-night hangout of choice for the city's bohemians and, um, colourful street characters since 1820.
In Washington DC, where city officials are debating the advantages of extending late-night hours, some politicians and residents oppose the idea as they think it will also lead to an increase in crime.
To the east, Kansas City is expecting 9 to 15 inches of snow Monday night into Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service, and officials are telling residents to stay off the roads.
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