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Workers stand in the shade in front of Burj Dubai, the world's ...

Thu Dec 3, 2:02 PM ET

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Workers stand in the shade in front of Burj Dubai, the world's tallest man-made structure under construction, in the Gulf emirate of Dubai on November 2009. Next month's opening of the Burj Dubai tower, the world's tallest building, will bring Dubai's era of exuberant expansion to a juddering halt as hundreds of other building projects are already mothballed.

(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)