The President explained that it was very difficult to police Puntland's long coast due to a lack of human and financial resources.

Ciudad Juárez, a sprawling Mexican border town that is now the homicide capital of the world, would have to be high on the list.

ISTANBUL The small park in Taksim Square in the sprawling metropolis of Istanbul is one of the few green spaces left in the city center.

It deserves the attention and support of all those who seek a better future for a vast country that has long endured plunder and misrule.

Thanks to the vagaries of the parliamentary system and the country s sprawling size, elections seem to take place somewhere every six months, and investors and political analysts are rarely perturbed by even the most unpredictable outcomes.