The secretary general, a Ghanaian, concentrated on Africa in his speech to the largely black gathering, centering his remarks on United Nations efforts to fight AIDS and to end conflicts on the continent.
Sunnis in the Jordan town of Southern Mazar on Friday burned down a Shiite gathering center, close to the shrine of another revered Shiite figure, Jafar Ibn Abi Talib, Iranian news media reported.
A March 2006 leak in a transit line, also called a feeder line, between a gathering center and a pump station for the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in March accounted for most of the oil spilled, about 212,000 gallons.
The days of an art-world gathering that centered on a wheel of cheap brie and a six-pack are long behind us.
The police deployed approximately 5,000 officers on April 1, the day before the G-20 meeting, and a similar number on April 2, the day of the gathering, which centered around the ExCel center near Canary Wharf in east London.
In Caron's sketches, today's parking lots that had once been town squares, gathering points centered on artesian wells, become public spaces again.
At the conference's social gatherings, discussion centered around such topics as forecasting people's voting patterns based on economic self-interest, or how Austrian, Keynesian, and Monetarist methodologies could complement each other to help understand human behavior.
Statistics released this month by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a data-gathering center at Syracuse University, show that a woman with children is more than fourteen times likelier to be allowed to remain in the United States if she has representation.
Once the state capital and a big cotton-gathering center, the city produced the Confederacy's secretary of war who ordered the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
Barely half a decade ago, it was still possible for a political convention, like the Democrats' gathering in 1996, to be centered not on terrorist threats but on proposals like flextime and family leave.
