When they used to crowd around me, I was scared.

Thousands of tourists flock to this temple every year.

No, not now! Not when they're massing out there.

I wonder now, is it the Danes or the Vikings swarming up the valley to storm the fort?

If I see six people congregated there in the square, I'll sit this one out.

Normally, a Davos audience would rally to the support of the central bankers.

The bird attack, plague Call it what you like, they're massing out there someplace, and they'll be back.

This should not, of course, be taken to mean that the patriots gushing over Lugovoi s achievement concede the justice of the British allegations.

We saw the people, assembled in Wenceslas Square, hundreds of thousands of them, jingling their keys and ringing hand bells in their good humored farewell to communism Your time is up.

Personally, Iím not budging from here... ...because my friends have implored me not to abandon them, my surviving friends, as well as the dead ones, who crowd my sleepless nights like ghosts.

Likewise, though Europe s populists use their opposition to Brussels as a rallying flag, their ideology retains the atavism that motivated their forebears.

Many repudiate his corruption but, in challenging the post coup status quo , have no recourse except to use him as a rallying symbol.

The Hygiene and Sanitation Department (DHA) of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of Benin is responsible for ensuring improved living conditions and reduced risks of epidemics in reception centres and localities where refugees are gathered.

The well of the House supposedly sacrosanct becomes a stage for opposition MPs to crowd and jostle, waving placards and chanting slogans until the speaker, after several futile attempts to restore order, adjourns in despair.

As the world's population reaches 7 billion at the end of October, one sign that Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, is growing rapidly are the numbers of people that flock to the city's markets.

Yet another damaging myth, perpetuated by shocking images of refugees swarming through border fences or attempting to climb onto trains in Calais, is that Fortress Europe is under assault by waves of barbarians. This is wrong on two levels.

Putin may not have ordered the hit on Nemtsov or any of the others. But, like Stalin, he has nurtured a climate of fear and lawlessness, in which those who rally behind the Kremlin feel a duty to eliminate the leader's opponents however they can, and in anticipation of his will.

This heinous criminal act of blind terrorism occurred in the early afternoon hours of Ashura, one of the holiest days in our calendar, as thousands of pilgrims, coming from all across Iran as well as from other Muslim countries, congregated in this holy sanctuary.