When the five minutes were over, I would say, Please shred the piece of paper.

It's a symbolic gesture. I tear up the script, I go and I panic myself, I get scared.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration s decision to put the unions ahead of secured debt holders in the orchestrated Chrysler bankruptcy risks rupturing the basic fabric of credit markets.

The ECB announced OMT in response to last summer s panicked sales of southern European sovereign debt, which threatened to blow apart the eurozone.

The Mauritanian capital Nouakchott witnessed violent clashes between security forces and an angry crowd. The story is that anonymous people tore up the Quran, the holy book of Islam, in one of the city's mosques.

kalimakhus How would you feel if you wake up in the morning to the news of two children detained, away from their parents, waiting to be presented to the Public Prosecutor because a donkey accused them of tearing up a book?