U.S. and British airstrikes have cut off the Taliban air supply routes to the north, leaving the Taliban only a long circular route through western Afghanistan to supply the north, Abdullah said.

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So these circular monuments have had a long life and no doubt have meant different things to different people.

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After a few months planning the event, I met the Lamborghini staff at Nardo Prototipo: a four-lane, 7.8-mile-long (12.6 km) circular track in southern Italy, where Ferrari , Maserati and other exotic carmakers test their vehicles.

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It is an impression of the moment of death, and only at the last is it apparent that this circular movie may have been one long flashback.

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The Long March will put Tiangong in a near-circular path around the Earth, just a few hundred km above the surface.

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For most of the century-long history of the wrist watch, it has been a circular affair, reinforcing the cyclical nature of time.

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The workers are housed in long prefabricated buildings or, for the luckier ones, traditional gers, circular felt tents (equipped with untraditional en suite facilities, TV and Ethernet cables).

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