This is a sparsely populated semi-desert area roughly 80 miles east of San Diego.
Beijing's Tsinghua University and the local government are developing the site, located in a desert area in north-western China, Xinhua says.
France says its troops will start pulling out of Mali in March, and hand over control of the vast northern desert area to African forces.
The desert area is favored by the U.S. military and its allies for training because the hot, dusty conditions and mountains replicate Afghanistan's harsh environment and the clear weather allows for constant flying.
Islamist rebels are believed to have retreated to the Ifoghas mountains - a desert area in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria - after being forced from northern population centres in recent weeks.
About 2, 700 homes were without power because of at least five downed utility poles in the remote desert area of Borrego Springs in San Diego County, according to Amber Albrecht, spokeswoman for San Diego Gas and Electric.
Syria's air and naval forces conducted live-fire manoeuvres aimed testing their readiness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland, " the official Sana news agency reported, with state TV pictures reportedly showing warplanes and helicopters firing missiles at targets in a desert area, as well as surface-to-air missiles hitting targets in the air.
The well-designed and compelling museum has a vast mix of artifacts and interactive displays, with a special exhibit on another Nevada desert intrigue, Area 51.
Although Bastion is in an area of desert, the surroundings are not uninhabited.
The former intelligence chief said the Libyan army had little capability in this vast area of desert and there was a fear of confronting the extremists.
The Mediterranean coastal fringes have a Mediterranean climate with some rain between October and March, but the vast area of desert inland has very little rain at all and here some of the highest temperatures in the world have been recorded.
He wandered and hitchhiked from prairie to desert to forest to roadless area.
The Wadi is not a single valley (as the Arabic word suggests) but rather a vast area of protected desert in which the Bedouin have established numerous government-approved camps.
Maria Reiche, a German mathematician, spent more than half a century investigating and protecting 16 mysterious ancient drawings known as the Nazca Lines over a 60 kilometre (45 mile) area in the Peruvian desert.
One area of concern is the Sahel, a vast semi-arid area south of the Sahara desert.
The practice site was a large government-owned stretch of desert with an elevation equivalent to the area surrounding Abbottabad.
George-area mansion feels more like Las Vegas than the Utah desert.
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The panel is strategically located in the village of Bujama, an area south of the capital city that is almost a desert, where some people have no access to clean water.
U.S. and French officials say that their efforts to monitor the Libyan desert have been slowed by the Libyan government's resistance to allowing outside access to the area.
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