The bus was very crowded. I wish I had taken a taxi.

There was traffic so I was a half an hour late to meet him.

St Mark's Square in Venice is always swarming with tourists in the summer.

Ports are inefficient, roads are congested, and traffic is astonishingly chaotic.

As a result, in order to move past each other in an extremely crowded environment, they are forced to modify their behavior.

His lane of traffic was at a standstill, but it was normal on a weekend night such as this.

The result is that all the roads are congested as everyone in Jeddah has a car from the minister to the doorman.

Ashok Kumar takes Balakrishnan outside, and to Balakrishnan's surprise, he sees the entire village crowded in front of his house.

The makeshift camps are extremely overcrowded, and outbreaks of malaria, cholera, typhoid, respiratory infections and other diseases may therefore result.

However, in a crowded and loud city like Cairo, we sometimes need more than a spoken language to communicate.

We realize that these are busy times and that few readers will be able to read all of the thorough case studies, background discussions, and tool profiles that we publish.

By time she married in the 1960s, Yarmouk had grown into a busy neighborhood housing thousands of Palestinian refugees.

Here, a group of young boys are surrounded by dilapidated houses, dirt streets crammed with rubbish, and peers who have never seen the inside of a school.

As I strolled through the Medina (town) on Saturday in search of drugs (the prescription kind) and yogurt (the Greek kind) walking side by side through the crowded streets were politics and nipples...I do not find this sexy.

And by the way, all of these numbers are significantly higher if you happen to be black, if you happen to be poor, if you happen to exist in an overcrowded school.

Right now, incomes are slack, households have become crowded, and there is a surplus of housing on the market all because nominal demand is still far below trend.

And with just a little bit of planning, we could transform a space dominated by traffic into one that provides open space for people, reconnects people with food and transforms waste into closed loop opportunities.

With too little electricity, blackouts are common. Ports are inefficient, roads are congested, and traffic is astonishingly chaotic.

Rural villages worldwide are being deserted, as billions of people flock to cities to live in teeming squatter camps and slums. Stewart Brand says this is a good thing. Why? It ll take you 3 minutes to find out.

On the morning of March 30, a one horned rhino ran through a busy market and near a hospital, killing a 61 year old woman and injuring several people, in a town 50 miles south of Nepal's capital Kathmandu.

Elsewhere, notably in Germany and France, such sweeping claims have been made for the so called Constitution that the few who actually look at the draft must wonder why its 125 mostly dense if not opaque pages of text should save Europe.

The number of families without adequate accommodation in Republika Srpska (without water, heating, electricity), as well as the number of those who are living in overcrowded, humid wet, unsafe and in other ways inadequate conditions, is 94,570, which is a worrisome piece of information.

Universities in Gaza are overcrowded and starved for supplies.

One day try stopping at a busy traffic light near a work site or industrial area, and see how, in 45 degree heat, the workers are crammed into a lorry meant for equipment, or for sheep at most But the greed of the factory or company owner prevents him from buying buses, which might cost no more than 40,000 Riyals to transport the workers from their accommodation to their workplace.

So far, Turkey seems to be falling short, promoting an overcrowded and ineffective agenda. One hopes that its leaders come to their senses fast, so that the upcoming summit can produce the results that past summits have failed to provide and that the world needs more than ever.

Nor could you infer it from the behavior of voters, who seem poised to re elect President Cristina Kirchner in October. But the signs of economic deterioration are surely there.