There was a major tsunami watch, earlier.

The griefstricken wife with a tearstained face,

You should see the crowds pouring into Fátima. I know.

We'll walk you out of the hot zone, then we'll jump on the last few vehicles.

It never rains but it pours.

Seeing tears coming out of those eyesthat couldn't see anything...

The same old John, pouring out the same old cascade of truths, halftruths and distortions.

Next came a billboard showing a man's face, with foreign coins flowing down upon it.

At last the Mock Turtle recovered his voice, and, with tears running down his cheeks, he went on again

I need four guys in this corner now!

Ukrainians also talk of an otkat ekonomiya ( kickback economy ), in which Russian money percolates throughout the Ukrainian elite.

I took this picture in the Tihamah Desert while 25 millimeters that's an inch of rain was falling.

The rain seemed to be streaming down more heavily than ever and everybody in the station wore wet and glistening waterproofs.

That you may know these things are done of God you shall see hail fall from a clear sky and burn as fire upon the ground.

Next came a billboard showing a man's face, with foreign coins flowing down upon it. The line read, Roma takes care of the Family, the Family takes care of Roma.

Letters from Indian soldiers in Europe to their families back home bespeak cultural dislocation and tragedy. The shells are pouring like rain in the monsoon, declared one.

What we know is that Putin has decided to come to the aid of Bashar al Assad s embattled regime. Russian bombs and missiles are now raining down on an array of armed groups that have been fighting Syrian government forces, which has given the regime the breathing space that Russia s intervention was intended to provide.

Even as Israeli bombs fell on Beirut and Tyre, Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most conservative Arab Muslim state of all, openly condemned the actions of the Shia Hezbollah in instigating conflict with Israel.