A funeral was delayed, airplanes stranded, roads were closed.

Atention. High ranking malandro funeral taking place at the Cafetal Boulevard .

George was the chief mourner at William's funeral.

The beginning of the Internet freedom funeral in front of the Jordanian Parliament.

I don t know why my mother s funeral entailed an armed security presence.

I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation.

The Revolutionary Guard leaders killed were buried two days later in a military funeral.

In Holland you would never ever meet these people, save for an isolated wedding or funeral.

It seems that the heavy gunshots taking place since dawn in the center of CARACAS, are part of a malandro's funeral.

Over time, he has given at least three versions of why he was absent from his father's funeral.

Wednesday February 16, 2011 is the third day of Bahrain's 'Day of Wrath' protests it has kicked off with the funeral of Fadhel Al Matrook, who died after mourners faced excessive force from riot police during Tuesday's procession for the first fallen protester Ali Mushaima.

It is true that Thailand s queen herself recently presided over the funeral of a protestor killed in a clash with the police.

That evening, before dusk, the funeral took place in the al Bureij refugee camp, about one hour away by car.

President Jacque Chirac's wife, the Prime Minister, and five ministers attended the funeral of Jean Luc Lagardère in 2003.

In 1970, I traveled to Egypt as part of a delegation representing the United States at the funeral of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

At that very moment, Roger Mudd was filing a report from Washington, describing the President's funeral arrangements.

If I had to go to a funeral, though, I would dress in B minor, which would be turquoise, purple and orange.

Marcell Shehwaro at the funeral of her mother, who was killed at a Syrian regime forces' checkpoint in June 2012.

Bucheeri is particularly irked at the closure of the roads because his cousin's funeral had to be delayed because the family and mourners were not able to reach the cemetery.

By the time the funeral of Mr. Garang was held in Juba on 6 August, the tense atmosphere had dissipated somewhat.

Former first lady Laura Bush was among those eulogizing Jones at his funeral on May 2, 2013.

This is one reason why Putin was one of the few leading heads of state to miss attending Pope John Paul s funeral.

When one of these funerals hits the streets in Venezuela, citizens' alerts on Twitter follow close behind, hoping to keep bystanders off the streets and away from the dangers these celebrations visit on innocent bystanders.

The first electrical recording issued to the public, with little fanfare, was of November 11, 1920 funeral services for the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey, London.

I know there are many times when I've gone and conducted a funeral, or when I have been sitting with the bereaved, or with people who are dying, and I am overwhelmed by the sadness, by the difficulty, the challenge that is there for the family, for the person.

More recently, protesters chanted it during the funeral demonstrations for Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri in the closing days of 2009.

Meanwhile, Slobodan Milosevic s trial morphed into a funeral after four boring years of testimony and a sunken cost of more than 200 million.

Indeed, from my first appearance as General Secretary of the USSR, at the funeral of my predecessor, Constantine Chernyenko, I said that every country should be responsible for its own politics.

In 1897, Victoria had written instructions for her funeral, which was to be military as befitting a soldier's daughter and the head of the army, and white instead of black.

Sati, a now outlawed practice, expected the widow to immolate herself on her husband's funeral pyre, either willingly or under pressure from the family and society.

During Tammo's funeral procession the next day in the town of Qamishli, Syrian security forces fired into a crowd of more than 50,000 mourners, killing five people.

He was present at the funeral of my mother, who was killed in cold blood at this checkpoint by security forces. He also knew that I would understand his pain when he informed me about the notorious air force building, where protestors have been tortured and killed.

She attended the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas on July 14, 2007 and three days later accepted the highest Polish distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, on behalf of Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library.

This, if you will remember, happened way back in December after the protest that accompanied the funeral of Ali Jassem, who died in as yet unclear circumstances after participating in a demonstration on December 17.

After the death of Kaczyński was announced, a week of mourning was declared by the acting President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, spanning 11 to 18 April with a state funeral for the couple held on 18 April.

The largest of those SPLA redeployments was the movement of approximately 600 troops into Juba immediately prior to the funeral of Mr. Garang to perform both security and ceremonial duties in close cooperation with the Sudanese Armed Forces.

In early April, a funeral at St. Mark s Cathedral (the seat of the Coptic Church in Cairo) for four Christians killed in sectarian riots days earlier descended into chaos, with thousands of mourners attacked as they tried to leave after the service.

As the day unfolds, Bloom's thoughts turn to the affair between Molly and her manager, Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan (obliquely, through, for instance, telltale ear worms) and, prompted by the funeral of his friend Paddy Dignam, the death of his child, Rudy.

On 1 June, at the memorial service for a cleric who had been assassinated a few days earlier, a suicide bomber detonated a massive charge in a mosque in Kandahar province, killing more than 40 people, including the chief of police of Kabul province.

It is true that Thailand s queen herself recently presided over the funeral of a protestor killed in a clash with the police. From that point on, policing of the protests became utterly passive.

Most Indians, as it seems many French, would prefer not to shed the hypocrisy Sarkozy laments on the part of his predecessors (read former French President François Mitterrand, who had a child with his mistress about whom the public knew nothing until the man s funeral).

Back then, Egypt was closely aligned with the Soviet Union. When we arrived in Cairo, it seemed that everywhere one looked there was evidence of the Soviet presence Soviet tanks, missiles, and troops.