Two weeks before he died, Michael Jackson wrapped up work on an elaborate production dubbed the "Dome Project" that could be the final finished video piece overseen by the King of Pop, The Associated Press has learned.
The first golf course Tiger Woods is designing might not be the first to open.
Homebuilder Lennar Corp. is pitching a plan to resolve the bankruptcy of the 21,000-home Newhall Ranch project, which is on the last major tract of undeveloped land in Los Angeles County.
A University of North Dakota research center is working on a clean energy system that converts used railroad ties into heat and power.
Twelve years ago, a mechanized version of a red plushy “Sesame Street” co-star became the unofficial face of obnoxious Christmas consumerism. Retailing for $28.99, “Tickle Me Elmo” resold for as much as $1,500 to both collectors and parents desperate to get the giggling, vibrating ‘It Toy’ of the season into the grasping hands of their commercial-addled children.
China National Petroleum Corp. has won a bid to build a $3.29 billion pipeline in the United Arab Emirates, its largest overseas construction project so far, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
Kazakhstan will receive a $700 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to help complete an ambitious highway project that traces the ancient Silk Road trading route, the bank said Thursday.
Kazakhstan signed a revised oil deal Friday that boosts the profits the Central Asian nation will get from an international consortium developing the giant Kashagan oil field.
It was a weeklong journey through Afghanistan's most dangerous Taliban territory, dodging persistent attacks by insurgents and bumping over rough desert terrain riddled with mines.
A subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp. and BHP Billiton Ltd on Friday announced a $1.25 billion project to tap oil and gas reserves in Bass Strait off southern Australia.
President Bush is on a crusade against lawmakers' pet projects, but on Thursday he plans to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a $100 million whopper that was slipped into a spending bill almost four years ago.
The Senate voted Thursday to direct the Justice Department to probe how a Florida road project made its way into a 2005 highway spending bill after the House and Senate voted on what lawmakers thought was the final version of the bill.
Kevin Everett and Marc Buoniconti each suffered a severe spinal cord injury while making a tackle. The difference between them on Friday was the result of more than 20 years of research.
A college student has apologized for causing a scare on a subway train when his science project short-circuited and started smoking in his backpack.
President Bush took executive action on Tuesday to crack down on pork barrel practices in Congress. He promised to veto any spending bill that doesn't cut the number and cost of congressional pet projects in half.
Australian officials gave the green light Wednesday to the giant Gorgon gas project off the coast of northwestern Australia, clearing the way for Chevron Corp. and its partners to develop the country's second liquefied natural gas plant — but with strict environmental conditions.
Construction has begun on a $3.7 billion dam in southwestern China that will displace from 88,000 to about 150,000 people, local media reported Monday.
Laurie Lisonbee worried about illegal immigration but figured it was somebody else's issue — until she saw hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters marching across her TV screen.
Jim Gilchrist can speak nonstop for more than an hour about the flood of illegal immigration that he predicts will bring America to its knees. But he can also talk warmly about his Mexican son-in-law and his half-Mexican "grandbrat."
A mouse diced with death when it stole some food from under the nose of a leopard at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire.
The Maskiyot project was first mooted some three years ago, and was intended to house Jewish settler families evacuated from Gaza following Israel's 2005 unilateral pullout from the strip.
During this difficult economic time, green projects need to be well planned. Over enthusiastic legislators can turn a well intentioned project into a costly burden on tax payers and slow recovery efforts. Good forward vision is essential to form effective strategy.
The word that made the rounds regarding the developmental of the WWE produced "Rise and Fall of WCW" DVD is that the people involved in putting it together were said to be completely clueless to the actual history of the company reports The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation began this week removing two inches of asphalt on Main Street from Okmulgee Avenue to Shawnee Bypass. The state maintenance project will cost $830,000 and is slated to be completed within 90 days, said Troy Travis of ODOT in Muskogee.
An anonymous older woman answered all her local Swedish church's prayers on Sunday by handing over an envelope with bills amounting to 100,000 kronor ($12,200).
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MGM Mirage is facing increased pressure over its massive CityCenter development, amid questions about whether it will make a $220 million project payment.
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Malacañang is coming out with a masterpiece to divert attention from the unholy alliance between Gloria and Mike Arroyo and Merceditas Gutierrez, the Ombudsman.
Berlin is now the first German city that can be viewed in 3-D format on internet program Google Earth, the project's organiser Berlin Partner GmbH announced.
Because our basement is such a train wreck, when we moved in it quickly took on the role of Dumping Ground.
Every night, for 33 days, her boyfriend strapped on a head lamp, got out his camera, and photographed her cervix.
A giant sculpture of a white Thoroughbred, 164 feet tall, will dominate one of the main entrances to Britain in three year's time after Mark Wallinger's design for an artwork at Ebbsfleet in Kent was announced the winner of a competition.
The World Bank today announced the debarment of seven firms and one individual for engaging in collusive practices under a major Bank-financed roads project in the Philippines. Two of the debarments are permanent, the strongest possible sanction.
Can you imagine buying a camera, shooting film, editing your content, and handing in a final result in less than 12 hours? A small group of reports from the Guardian did. Their project is titled 'One Night In Beijing'.
Plans for new computer systems are years behind schedule and have ballooned in cost; others have been scaled back or even scrapped.
HE LEAVES the White House as one of the least popular and most divisive presidents in American history.
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Excerpt: The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news.
Excerpt: Producers Chris Adams and Steve Kearney are joining with producer-director RJ Cutler to create a feature documentary about a true-life love story that played out on YouTube.com.
Pop superstar Michael Jackson has agreed to come to London to give evidence at the high court where he is being sued for $7m by an Arab sheikh, his lawyers said today.
A SCHOOLBOY was stopped on suspicion of being a terrorist — for taking photos of a railway station. Fabian Sabbara, 15, was wearing his school uniform when the Police Community Support Officer swooped.
A multigenerational living project aimed at gays and lesbians got one step closer to being realized when organizers laid a ground stone for the building this week.