Burj Dubai becomes tallest building on earth
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Burj Dubai, a tower under construction in the United Arab Emirates&#39; trade hub, became the tallest building in the world on Saturday, measuring 512.1 metres (1,680 ft), its developer said.
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Taiwan celebrated the official opening of the world&#39;s tallest skyscraper today with a colorful opera performance and some of the island&#39;s top personalities taking elevators up to the 89th-floor observation platform.
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world was inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac in southern France Tuesday.
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The new tower planned for the World Trade Center site has a lot more going for it than its 1,776-foot height -- it will include an array of environmentally friendly power sources. By John Gartner.
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Frenchman Alain Robert has defied bad weather to set a personal record by climbing the world&#39;s tallest building, Taipei 101, in four hours.
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MOSCOW - The French skyscraper climber who calls himself "Spiderman" scaled Europe's tallest skyscraper in the Russian capital yesterday before being detained by police. Alain Robert climbed to the top of the 799-foot Federation office building, Europe's tallest building, in less than a half-hour using a ladder.
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President Jacques Chirac has inaugurated the world's highest bridge, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A French urban climber who calls himself Spiderman climbed to the top of the world's tallest building on Saturday - Taipei 101.  Alain Robert, 42, took almost four hours to reach the top of the 1,679-foot building.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan  - Daredevil climber Alain Robert,  known as the French Spiderman, defied stiff winds and rain to  climb the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, in the Taiwan  capital Saturday.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. SYDNEY, Australia -- The world&#39;s biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter Scale
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world is to be inaugurated in southern France -- a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists at 270 metres (885 feet) above the valley of the river Tarn.
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French president Jacque Chirac formally inaugurated the world&#39;s tallest bridge in Millau, southern France, on Tuesday, report agencies.
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Soaring above a valley through the green hills of central France, a stunning British-designed bridge hailed as the tallest of its kind in the world opened today.
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An enormous white zeppelin described as the world's largest successfully completed its maiden flight on Friday in Japan.
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The Mitsubishi Electric Corporation opens what it says is the world's tallest elevator testing tower.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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America used to be the tallest country in the world.