It proposes to cut empty property non-domestic rates relief from a maximum of 50% to a maximum of 10% for commercial properties, after a phasing in period of three months.

BBC: Empty property rates relief debate

The process is expensive and lengthy, and includes bringing all non-disposables, like batteries and empty oxygen cylinders, back to Kathmandu and on to their home countries.

BBC: Everest's growing problem

As for the other business, the summit completed its main task, which was to approve the establishment of a permanent Ibero-American secretariat in Madrid, so that such empty platitudes can be thought up non-stop, instead of only once a year.

ECONOMIST: The Ibero-American summit

All of it is preferable to being one of those sad, non-playoff arenas or ballparks where 70% of your supposed fans dress up as empty seats.

WSJ: Playoff Whiteout: Dressing the Same Isn't That Lame

Now, empty taxis, often bought with redundancy pay, prowl the streets in search of non-existent customers.

ECONOMIST: Chile

Just one day earlier, an electrical fire broke out on an empty Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet at Boston Logan International Airport, after it had deplaned passengers arriving on a non-stop flight from Tokyo.

BBC: Is the Boeing Dreamliner safe?