Long lines formed to ride a Ferris wheel set up amid beer and bratwurst stands on the tarmac.

WSJ: Berlin's New Airport Is Racking Up Delays Even Before It Opens

Avocado farmers have formed an export company and set up a sales office in Paris.

ECONOMIST: South African farming

The prime minister has offered to work with the newly-formed Yesh Atid party, a secular centrist party set up by Mr Lapid last year.

BBC: Yair Lapid (23 January 2013)

The nonprofit ICANN formed in September 1998 to sort out who would manage a set of Internet management functions currently handled by the U.S. government and its contractors.

CNN: 15 new firms approved to sell Net addresses

South Africa's biggest retail lender, Absa, is set to acquire a majority stake in a Nigerian group formed by the merger of three banks.

ECONOMIST: The hard task of reforming Nigeria's banking system

Although Lord Rayleigh was unable to come up with a solution, he developed a set of equations that are still being used today and formed the basis for the team's work on shrimps.

BBC: Shrimp, bubble and pop

Pearl, formed from a public company that trades on the slippery Toronto Venture Exchange, set up a subsidiary in New Jersey to avoid laws in other states that prevent nonlitigants from financing lawsuits and to give it a U.S. home base.

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The polished nature of that presentation may have set a false expectation that "The Muppets" was ready to arrive fully formed, while the first two episodes are typical of most comedy pilots: more potential than achievement.

CNN: Review: 'The Muppets' still finding its felting

It was still the largest building in the world when Ottoman Turks set about converting it into a mosque after capturing Istanbul from the Byzantines in 1453, and formed a blueprint for its famous neighbour, the Blue Mosque.

BBC: An insider��s tour of Hagia Sophia