The ruins of the old town are on the outskirts of the modern city.

Syrian men playing soccer on the outskirts of Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan in July 2013.

As you have said, Mr. President, we are beginning the second phase of our work leading up to the summit.

In Finland, the anti European True Finns party has shot up from nowhere to the brink of power.

Bin Qumu has a small paramilitary force training in the Bou Musafir forest on the outskirts of Derna.

WASHINGTON, DC As we enter 2011, the Euro Atlantic region is a study in strategic contrasts.

It may just be that the Palestinians are on the verge of a new chapter in their history and in the history of Israel and the whole region as well.

Some say that it was the commercial revolution and the rise of the middle class that brought us to the brink of victory over scarcity.

We're at the very beginning of something that, what we're seeing and the way that mesh companies are coming forward, is inviting, it's engaging, but it's very early.

So, for young African athletes, embarking on the path to high level sports is a risky wager.

Little wonder, then, that on the precipice of this historic moment, there are many snakes in the grass.

They marched thinking that the military regime will satisfy these rights i.e the right to correct their citizenship papers, access to employment and settling the conditions of fired employees. But they were welcomed with police and teargas shells, after they (authorities) failed to dissuade them from returning to where they came from.

Indeed, today the US economy is standing on the brink of biotechnological and, perhaps, nanotechnological revolutions of vast scale and scope.

At the edge of death, but still clinging to life, Diego Maradona seems these days both priest and victim of a tragic Argentine ritual.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.

For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

When they arrived, brown domes made of crisscrossed branches and layers of multicolored mats would appear like crowds of dappled beetles on the outskirts of town.

The person would be buried alone, on the outskirts of the city, without a headstone or marker, however, it was deemed to be an acceptable method to deal with military defeat.

By October 24, Israel had two brigades on the outskirts of the city, and one battalion from Yoffe's paratroopers brigade southwest of the town at the Gulf of Suez near the old oil refinery.

At 1429 hours, Israeli occupation forces positioned in Chebaa farms fired several 155 mm artillery rounds, impacted at the outskirts of Kfarchouba, Halta, and Bastra farm

Between 1735 and 1840 hours, Israeli occupation forces positioned in Chebaa farms fired several 155 mm artillery rounds, impacted at the outskirts of Chanouh village.

We conceive of the New political act as a new consensus over how the United Nations Charter could best serve the implementation of its principles and objectives at the dawn of the twenty first century.

At the city's southern outskirts, near the historic Pyrohiv village, there is an outdoor museum, officially called the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine It has an area of .

After France barely survived the tournament s first round, Zidane performed at the top of his game and led the team to the brink of a second World Cup championship.

Lisa was born in Florence on 15 June 1479 on Via Maggio, although for many years it was thought she was born on one of the family's rural properties, Villa Vignamaggio just outside Greve.

We believe that big history will be a vital intellectual tool for them, as Daniel and his generation face the huge challenges and also the huge opportunities ahead of them at this threshold moment in the history of our beautiful planet.

It is ironic that, as rockets from Gaza reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv, those Israelis who celebrated the partition, and their descendants, do not see the importance of fulfilling the other half of the partition plan.

Now, under the leadership of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia has reached a historic milestone a comprehensive debt reduction package that writes off more than 90 of its foreign debt and opens up new opportunities to rebuild the country.

For example, the ability to measure extremely low amounts of air pollutants or toxic materials in water raises questions and dilemmas of risk thresholds especially if the advancement of such technologies outpaces the ability of the public to respond.

To make it easy for them, however, he had written to them asking that they put up a signal for him when the train passed their little farm on the outskirts of town.

And a fabulous man called Miles Loyd who lives on the outskirts of San Francisco, wrote this seminal paper that was completely ignored in the Journal of Energy about how to use basically an airplane on a piece of string to generate enormous amounts of electricity.

For people under 30, and it looks to me like almost all of you I would say all of you are either on the cusp of a magnificent and exciting career or right into a magnificent and exciting career anything can happen to you. Things change.

Yet California s technological and entrepreneurial might standing alone, the state would be the world s eighth largest economy coexists with a dysfunctional political system that has brought it to the edge of fiscal bankruptcy.

In all the major countries, this resulted in defaults, significant and continuous exchange rate adjustments, and, by the end of the decade, a severe inflation devaluation spiral, bordering, in some cases, on hyperinflation.

At TED MotorCity, Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh, talks about a future of business that's about sharing all kinds of stuff, either via smart and tech enabled rental or, more boldly, peer to peer. Examples across industries from music to cars show how close we are to this meshy future.

A second principle is that retirement should be a gradual process. People could work an average of 1,800 2,000 hours per year until they reach their 50 s, taper off to 1,300 1,500 hours in their early 60 s, and move toward the 500 1,000 range as they approach 70.