Derelict power plant symbol of Iraq woes
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A giant smokestack looms over the green pastures and lazily flowing canals south of Baghdad. There is no smoke &#151; just the sense of lost economic potential and an uncertain future.
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This energy powerhouse looks cheap, despite recent setbacks.
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The long-term recovery of the Iraq marshlands is threatened by limited water supplies, research shows.
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From a mud hut under the world&#39;s  longest high-tension power line, Tshisumpa Nvita can see the  rusting remains of a power station that, for a few months 30  years ago, brought electricity to this corner of Congo.
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By Kevin Mayhood, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Dec. 8--The Gen. James M. Gavin power plant in southeastern Ohio won't change how it operates, but it has agreed to notify neighbors when the plant emits more sulfuric acid than normal.
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KANANGA, Congo  - From a mud hut under the world's longest high-tension power line, Tshisumpa Nvita can see the rusting remains of a power station that, for a few months 30 years ago, brought electricity to this corner of Congo.
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Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is said to be miserable and begging for mercy according to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. &quot;He is distraught and depressed,&quot; Allawi told the Arabic daily Al-Hayat in an
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Among the people living around this disused Polish air base, there is little enthusiasm for the missile interceptor station likely to be built here as part of a U.S. missile defense system.
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MANAMA: A $1.3 billion (BD491 million) combined power, water and petrochemical plant is to be built in Bahrain. The project will create about 3,500 jobs during its construction and 500 in the long-term.
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Saboteurs are stalling oil transports and causing costly power outages, crippling the country's increasingly unstable energy infrastructure.
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Day and night, a mechanical roar shakes Nigeria's main city and exhaust hangs in the leaden equatorial skies. But it's not evidence of heavy industry or a mechanized army division advancing on Lagos. With corruption and mismanagement leaving Africa's oil giant chronically short of electricity, businesses and walled residential compounds run diesel generators that clatter around the clock, spewing dirty fumes skyward.
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BAGHDAD -- As if the daily struggle to dodge bullets and bombings is not enough, many Iraqis now face a freezing winter shivering by candlelight as persistent attacks keep the power out for more than 12 hours a day.
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The mysterious removal of Iraq&#39;s mothballed nuclear facilities continued long after the US-led invasion and was carried out by people with access to heavy machinery
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Concerns are growing that high-precision equipment in Iraq that could be used to make nuclear weapons has been &quot;systematically&quot; disappearing
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The U.S.-led occupation authority's disbanding of the Iraqi Army over a year ago casts a shadow over the occupation.
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The story of Baiji power station, which can produce more electricity than any plant in Iraq, helps explain why power generation remains one of the most vexing reconstruction challenges in the country.
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A lack of Iraqi government organization and the city's ethnic mix complicates preparations for suppressing the insurgency