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Fans of international soccer are counting down the 28 days until the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. If you'd like to experience a little of that excitement in Houston Reliant Stadium will be the place to go tonight. The atmosphere will have the feel of a home game for Mexico as they take on Angola in the final friendly before El Tri heads to South Africa to face that nation in the opening match on June 11th more ›

Last week it was reported that Houston-based contracting giant KBR had been awarded a $6.4 billion contract to build an oil refinery in Angola, one of the world's richest countries in terms of petrochemicals (the US imports more oil from Angola than it does from Kuwait) but one of the poorest in terms of population (70% of Angolans live below the poverty line). more ›