We've probably all heard it in the news by now Greece is ablaze.

However, competition is high, and prospective students must take an entrance exam.

While the fires are still burning in the outskirts of Athens itself, this is what the Greek blogsphere had to say about this.

Some serious traffic accidents in Germany are known to have been caused by a lit cigarette.

A cold war is not as good as a cold peace, but a cold peace is still better than a hot war.

Obama s administration will not start a war with a third Muslim country while the two others continue to burn.

Every culture has distinct concepts of what constitutes the acquisition of languages and from a scientific point of view there are heated debates among the different approaches to this phenomenon.

Once undertaken, the West s intervention ended an almost uninterrupted civil war, and is still viewed with approval by a majority of the population.

What started as a one man protest for dignity ignited the Arab world and beyond with a revolutionary fire, that is still raging and yet to be extinguished despite the attempts of dictators and their supporters.

The failure to demobilize and reconcile factions in Lebanon, where Hezbollah remained armed despite its transformation into a political party, meant that belligerency was always bubbling below the surface.

As I write this, violent clashes with the police have been going on for nearly two weeks in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities, with cars being set on fire at a rate of nearly 1,000 per night.

Grandma It's somebody's birthday today Somebody's birthday today The candles are lighted on somebody's cake And we're all invited for somebody's sake You're 21 years old today.

But many members of today s thriving global Armenian Diaspora have direct ancestors who perished, and carry an oral historical tradition that keeps the memories burning.

As long as there is war in some part of the country, resources will be spent on weapons, not welfare investors will be reluctant entrepreneurs will hesitate young people with brains and initiative will want to leave the country displaced people will wander around.

While their brains were having an advantage from being able to copy lighting fires, keeping fires going, new techniques of hunting, these kinds of things inevitably they were also copying putting feathers in their hair, or wearing strange clothes, or painting their faces, or whatever.

Regretfully, the answer to this question unambiguously indicates the role of the Russian Federation in inspiring and maintaining these conflicts, notwithstanding the fact that this country officially bears a heavy responsibility of facilitator for the conflict settlement .

Regretfully, the answer to this question unambiguously indicates the role of the Russian Federation in inspiring and maintaining these conflicts, notwithstanding the fact that this country officially bears a heavy responsibility of facilitator for the conflict settlement .

As I write this, violent clashes with the police have been going on for nearly two weeks in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities, with cars being set on fire at a rate of nearly 1,000 per night. Why is this happening?

The Secretary General reminds us of this when he rightly stresses in his Report on the Work of the Organization that the violent internal conflicts that still persist the world over cause millions of civilian victims, result in spillover to neighbouring countries and heighten the threat to peace and international security.