But of this fateful cohabitation and its consequences, I'll speak more later.

We must not allow this catastrophic scenario to become a foregone conclusion.

A war which saw the streets of European cities strewn with rubble.

Listening to your testimony makes me even more convinced that we need to act to prevent cataclysmic climate change.

On August 26, Israel and the Palestinian factions agreed to halt fighting indefinitely, putting an end to seven weeks of catastrophic destruction and loss of life in Gaza.

It is only a matter of time before extreme poverty, hunger and the catastrophic impact of widespread diseases will lead to strife, internal or external.

On behalf of the people and the Government of the Marshall Islands, I wish to express our condolences and sympathies to the victims and families who have suffered severely as a result of the recent catastrophic Hurricane Katrina in the United States.

If so, there would be no denying that we continue to face grave problems, including of course the threat of catastrophic climate change. But there would nonetheless be some reason to hope for moral progress.

Within hours of the catastrophic earthquake on 12 January which devastated Port au Prince and other parts of Haiti, bloggers elsewhere in the Caribbean began to respond and comment.

Depending on the objective and the means employed, the effects of such attacks may range from soft kills of enemy weapon or sensor systems to cataclysmic disruptions of nationwide power grids.