Although Abacha is now dead, 'King Baabu' has lost nothing of its topicality as similar figures remain in power in many countries in Africa and all over the world.

BBC: Nigeria's Soyinka back on stage

Which means come Saturday, there will be nothing to prevent the King of England from waltzing right through your front door and pushing you around.

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Their hopes of salvaging a point came to nothing disappeared when former Hull player King sidefooted home Boro's third after Jeremie Aliadiere had caught George Boateng in possession.

BBC: Middlesbrough 3-1 Hull

Sir George says that a tourist getting on a train at King's Cross will see large posters advertising the beauties of Scotland, but nothing on the attractions of the north-east.

ECONOMIST: Britain is not attracting as many tourists as it should

At a dinner squeezed in after The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and before Larry King, he orders a hamburger with absolutely nothing on it, a fetish of the unapologetic red-meat eater who doesn't want so much as a sprig of parsley between the bun and the burger.

CNN: Backstreet Boies

Enlisting archaeologist Tom King, a shoe was recovered in a location with circumstantial evidence of Earhart's plane, but nothing substantial has turned up.

CNN: After Richard III, can we find Genghis Khan?

In the document, which announced his planned rampage, Dorner said nothing had changed in the LAPD since its scandals of the 1990s, the Rodney King beating and the Rampart police corruption case.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Treaty talks came to nothing, and the British withdrew their protection, opening the way for Ibn Saud, the king of the Nejd, to conquer Hussein's kingdom of Hijaz in 1924, and launch Wahhabi rule over Saudi Arabia.

ECONOMIST: Britain and the Hashemites