With Syria engulfed by chaos, the world does not know what to think.

Terrible weather in Zaatari today.

It was before the avian flu had reached Europe.

Four hurricanes brushed the Islands in 2004.

On April 21, a new wave of strikes hit the country.

Anti Japanese riots across China have heightened tensions in Asia.

These declined owing to the crisis of the mid 1990s.

On the morning of December 29, the troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota.

Risk assessment tsunami relief operation in Sri Lanka

The financial revolution that swept the world over the last two decades seemed to sever the link between representative government and public finance.

ISTANBUL A cycle of terrible violence has taken over much of the Middle East.

It continued last fall with the wave of violence in the suburbs.

Unlike the Japanese experience, this crisis involved the entire world, rather than being confined to a single country.

The revolutions and popular upheavals which have swept the Middle East generated an undreamed of amount and diversity of arts.

When Nurziya Kazhibayeva was six years old, a famine swept across Kazakhstan.

The near panic conditions in financial markets eased as soon as rumors spread that this solution had at least been discussed behind closed doors.

The surge of anger and revolt in Egypt, whatever its final outcome, marks the beginning of the end for authoritarian nationalist Arab regimes.

Following massive protests across Egypt today, the army was deployed to enforce a night time curfew.

The rice joins a growing list of food scares to hit China in recent years.

In 2014, after ISIS swept much of northern Iraq, Christians were faced with a similar ultimatum.

The Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire.

In 1732, news swept through the Continent that a dead man from a Serbian village killed others at night.

Spearheaded by this minority, the scientific revolution swept through Europe and, later, spread to the rest of the world.

Leonidas Papazoglou died in 1918 at the age of 46, affected by the Spanish influenza epidemic, which plagued Macedonia at the time.

The devastating cyclones that had recently engulfed the region had again demonstrated the serious consequences of disrupting the ecological balance.

OXFORD The wave of revolts that swept across the Arab world two years ago were fueled by demands for freedom, bread, and social justice.

In the context of the 1848 liberal revolutions that swept through Europe, an unsuccessful war was declared on Austria.

The Fuegian population was devastated by the diseases, and their numbers were reduced from several thousand in the 19th century to hundreds in the 20th century.

That said, there is no question that the upheavals in both countries and elsewhere in the Arab world largely reflect their governments failure to share the wealth.

Unforeseen factors, including the recent tsunami that devastated countries in Asia, will no doubt have a significant impact on domestic spending for population.

1. Expresses its deep concern at the consequences of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Maldives

If relatively secular Turkish society could be swept by a surge of anti American sentiment, so, too, can Indonesia society.

As economic crisis engulfs France and most of the world, the French are not reassured by their young and energetic president.

I've kept fairly silent on the latest wave of protests and revolutions that have suddenly gripped the Arab world.

CAMBRIDGE Greedy banks, bad economic ideas, incompetent politicians there is no shortage of culprits for the economic crisis in which rich countries are engulfed.

One of the major results of the social justice protests in Israel in the last year has been a renewed debate about the budgetary priorities of the state.

It was a tragic paradox that the political movement that so peacefully swept China in 1989 ended up arresting the process of broad based, evolutionary reform to which Zhao consecrated his life.

Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine.

Indeed, a German proverb to the effect that trust is good, but control is better has been the basis of eurozone leaders policy since the developed world s debt crisis engulfed the single currency s system of governance.

Yet the United Nations estimates that more than 7,000 noncombatants were killed in the final months of the war as government forces overran Tamil Tiger bases.

First, all were caused by a profound crisis of the social welfare state falling output, rising unemployment, large budget deficits, inflation, and devaluation.

Lesser known than the Irish potato famine, the Icelandic potato famine was caused by the same blight that ravaged most of Europe during the 1840s.

With Syria engulfed by chaos, the world does not know what to think. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has admitted that the United States lacks a clear picture of the situation in Syria.

Nigeria has been convulsed by religious violence triggered by the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper months ago.

In October, an extraordinary superstorm smashed into the Atlantic coastline around New Jersey, causing losses of around 60 billion.