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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PAUL HANDLEYA Saudi man takes the number of a real estate company from the facade of a building on King Fahd road in the Saudi capital Riyadh on December 14, 2010 where one office building after another sports a gigantic telephone number: the international sign of a desperate search for tenants. AFP PHOTO/HAMAD OLAYAN (Photo credit should read HAMAD OLAYAN/AFP/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PAUL HANDLEYA Saudi man takes the number of a real estate company from the facade of a building on King Fahd road in the Saudi capital Riyadh on December 14, 2010 where one office building after another sports a gigantic telephone number: the international sign of a desperate search for tenants. AFP PHOTO/HAMAD OLAYAN (Photo credit should read HAMAD OLAYAN/AFP/Getty Images)