The spy burned the papers.

Who burned the cake?

Participants included nomads, farmers, and students, who in theory should have been the most grateful to China for modernizing Tibet s economy.

A Japanese flag was burned outside the foreign students dorm.

When Cortés allegedly burned the Spanish ships, he did not take a poll.

That same spring, demonstrators in Paris burned cars in opposition to the bourgeois lifestyle.

The British businessman s body was allegedly cremated before any autopsy was conducted.

As recently as last year, the fishing families say, employees of the refinery burned down homes that had been rebuilt.

To the west, in Darfur, protesters burned government buildings in the provincial capital of Nyala while the siege in Nairobi played out.

I heard about women being molested in their beds, flogged in their burqas, left for dead in parking lots, acid burned in their kitchens.

Ali was burned to death in a settler attack on his home in Duma, in the West Bank, on July 31.

On November 15, 1755, British officer John Thomas burned the village of Tentatmar (Sackville, New Brunswick), destroying in the process the church and ninety seven other buildings.

Simply put, if the world burns its known coal reserves using current technologies, it is likely to push global temperature rise far beyond 2ºC.

When Cortés allegedly burned the Spanish ships, he did not take a poll. Had he done so, he might have won (the strategy was clever), but it was not a foregone conclusion.

Light burned my brain like wildfire, and sounds were so loud and chaotic that I could not pick a voice out from the background noise, and I just wanted to escape. Because I could not identify the position of my body in space, I felt enormous and expansive, like a genie just liberated from her bottle.

In late January, Lendu fighters and FNI militia members attacked Hema villages in the Tche area of Djugu, with reports of at least 16 civilians killed, 80 abducted, more than 200 homes burned and many others looted and destroyed.