ANDORRA LA VELLA, Andorra — Every year on the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, the families that dominate banking in this mountainous capital meet to assess the year's business.
From the mountainous capital of Quito to the crowded metropolis of Guayaquil, and from ghetto tech to ambient music inspired by the rolling green hills of the Andes, this is music bubbling up from the equator, so you know it's hot.
Two-thirds of the senior posts in Aden, grouches the newspaper, are in northern hands, including that of the chief of police, who is ensconced in the British ambassador's former residence.The southern furore has not gone down well in Sanaa, the mountainous Yemeni capital, 345km (215 miles) to the north.
THE NEWS A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 struck western China last Monday, ravaging a mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province.
At least some of the houses from which snipers in civilian clothing fired on demonstrators on Friday belonged to officials from Yemen's ruling party, including the governor of Mahweet, a mountainous district near the capital.
The quake, which was estimated preliminarily to have had a magnitude of 7.9, ravaged a mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, just after lunchtime Monday, destroying 80percentt of structures in some of the towns and small cities near its epicenter, Chinese officials said.
"Before, a lot of people were dying of AIDS," said Moeketsi Monamela, a 33-year-old coffin maker here in Maseru, the capital of the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho.
Cucinelli had bowled into Rome that morning from Umbria, a mountainous region north of the capital, where he lives in a hilltop village called Solomeo.
On day two, after fuelling up on bacon and haggis sandwiches for breakfast, we catch the ferry to Leverburgh on the mountainous Isle of Harris, tweed capital of the world.
Thousands of Iranians flocked to a ceremony on Monday held by Choopan dairy at the Tochal resort in Velenjak mountainous area north of the capital Tehran to unveil the five-tonne (11,023lb) chocolate dessert contained within a tub measuring at least 1.6 metres (5ft) by 2 metres.
They crosschecked their data against suicide rates from other countries using the suicide capital, the very mountainous South Korea as their example, and found that South Koreans living at 6,500 feet above sea level had a 125percentt higher suicide risk.
