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By NBC News photojournalist Mike Simon
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – “Be careful, Mike! These things usually come in pairs.”
The words of my sound recordist, Bobby Lapp, ring as loudly as any memory of the attack.
There was no doubt what had just happened. A huge truck bomb had ripped apart the Marriott Hotel in downtown Islamabad. The [...]

By NBC News photojournalist Mike Simon
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – “Be careful, Mike! These things usually come in pairs.”
The words of my sound recordist, Bobby Lapp, ring as loudly as any memory of the attack.
There was no doubt what had just happened. A huge truck bomb had ripped apart the Marriott Hotel in downtown Islamabad. The [...]

By Yonatan Pomrenze, NBC News Producer
 MOSCOW – “I’m against that one – the aggressive one – I’m for Obama,” said Valentina Savina, a lottery ticket seller on the Old Arbat, Moscow’s busy central pedestrian thoroughfare.
“[I’m] against McCain,” she added when asked what her views were on the U.S. presidential candidates. “He’s against Russia.”
Alexander Maleshov, [...]

By Martin Fletcher, NBC News Correspondent  MWANZA, Tanzania – None of the shopkeepers had change for a dollar, and I marveled, not for the first time, at how the gap between rich and poor plays out in real life.
I wanted to buy a tiny bag of peanuts while waiting for a ferry to [...]

Fresh off the billions of eyes that have been on the beautiful Beijing National Stadium, Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have set their sights on NYC with this incredible 57-story residential tower, unveiled today. It consists of 145 unique apartments that are stacked into the sky like a Jenga tower that’s already been well-poked [...]