• Of course, a few East Asian economies are still miles ahead of eastern Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Business and regulation

  • The navy said the 31 men and a boy were found 463km (250 nautical miles) off eastern Sri Lanka on Saturday and were being treated for acute dehydration.

    BBC: Burmese rescued off Sri Lanka 'threw dead into sea'

  • The planes flew several hundred miles into the eastern Mediterranean.

    CNN: ElBaradei warns against strike on Iran

  • Over the past six weeks, rebels have overrun a wide swath of territory in eastern Zaire that stretches nearly 300 miles (480 km).

    CNN: Rebels thrust toward last government-held town in E. Zaire

  • Forest fires burning in Canada's Northwest Territories in 1995 contributed to high levels of carbon monoxide more than 2, 000 miles away in the eastern United States, according to a study in today's issue of Science.

    CNN: Canadian forest fires add to U.S. pollution

  • "This is 'yes, but no drilling in Alaska, no drilling in the Eastern Gulf, no drilling inside 50 miles, ' " Pence said.

    CNN: House OKs bill allowing more offshore oil drilling

  • Heat warnings, watches or advisories Friday spanned 730, 000 square miles of the central and eastern United States, an area roughly the size of Mexico, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • After nearly 30 years in the business, Mumiy Troll is taking a fresh shot at finding a crossover audience with the release this week of its first English-language album, "Vladivostok, " named for its hometown, a far-eastern port city about 6, 000 miles from Moscow and 40 miles from the Chinese border.

    WSJ: A Russian Band Looks for a Home Abroad

  • In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy demolished miles of beach along the US Eastern seaboard and left thousands of residents without homes or places of employment.

    BBC: Jersey Shore reopens post Superstorm Sandy

  • The United States believes the missiles remain at a point about half way down the eastern coast of North Korea and about 10 miles inland.

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  • The G30 is the longest road in China, running for 4, 400km (2, 700 miles) from the coast of eastern Jiangsu province to Urumqi, close to the Kazakhstan border.

    BBC: China fireworks truck blast causes deadly road collapse

  • The island, which is about the size of the US state of Texas, sits hundreds of miles off the coast of south-eastern Africa.

    BBC: Pupils met the delegation from the Madagascan embassy

  • At the eastern edge of the Gold Coast, about 25 miles from Great Neck, this 24-room Spanish-style estate was home to William K Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of the famed railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt.

    BBC: The Great Gatsby��s Gold Coast

  • The Wild River Wilderness is a beautiful and unspoiled part of the White Mountain National Forest, located just a few miles from the Maine border in central-eastern New Hampshire.

    BBC: Share this page

  • Ensconced on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Inyokern covers 11 square miles of Kern County in the dust-choked Mojave Desert.

    FORBES: America's Best Places For Alternative Energy

  • The Jordan Valley - most of which lies within the eastern strip of the West Bank - is about 120km long (75 miles) and 15km wide.

    BBC: Middle East

  • In the eastern part of the state, white-out conditions prompted authorities to close 154 miles of Interstate 70 from Denver to the Kansas line.

    CNN: Spring snowstorm rocks Rockies, menaces Midwest

  • The crew of a TAM Linhas Aereas flight travelling over the area in the other direction shortly after the Airbus' last signal had reported seeing "bright spots" in the ocean about 1, 300 km (800 miles) from the Fernando de Noronha archipelago off Brazil's north-eastern coast.

    BBC: Atlantic searched for lost plane

  • Late Friday, NASA put out a statement indicating that the satellite's orbit was taking it as close as 90 miles to the Earth and re-entry was expected around midnight or early Saturday Eastern Daylight Time.

    WSJ: Falling Satellite Debris Might Hit U.S.

  • On I-40 some 100 miles west of Memphis, I chose to avoid a lengthy repair zone for a detour onto an eastern Arkansas secondary road.

    FORBES: Highways of the future? Not here

  • The plane went down about about 120 miles west of Tampa, Florida, at 12:08 p.m. after circling the eastern Gulf for more than two hours, said Chief Petty Officer John Edwards, a Coast Guard spokesman.

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  • Jay Cornforth, president of the eastern region for Prologis, said the company was drawn to the site despite the complications by its location three miles from Manhattan and a rare opportunity to build a huge warehouse facility.

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