Sami took chances.

Sami is risking his life.

And now it risks missing another important clue.

Monti should not risk European stability for his personal benefit.

At private quarries in a village off the Mandalay Lashio road, workers risk their health to make ends meet.

On the other hand, David Kenner writes that a consensus president risks perpetuating the deadlock of Lebanese politics

That geographical approach, in our view, runs the risk of over representation of some regions and underrepresentation of others.

But, beneath the surface, an unbalanced, unstable, uncoordinated, and unsustainable economy risks losing its capacity for resilience.

It could also risk expanding and prolonging United Nations engagement beyond what is actually necessary.

It is a bitter irony that the countries whose soldiers lives are on the line in Afghanistan are also the biggest markets for Afghan heroin.

As matters stand, the international community risks allowing the guilty to escape punishment simply because there is no consensus on the appropriate forum in which to prosecute the crimes.

But what if this food of love risks the player's life? This is case for the young musicians who make up the Jafraa orchestra at the Palestinian returnees camp in Homs, Syria.

In the meantime, both sides risk disrupting transfer payments (including to the elderly) and the provision of public services, as well as eroding further America s global credit standing.

But, rather than collapse (in the style of Asian and Latin American economies during the debt crises of old), Egypt s economy would risk a return to stifling controls and black markets.

With conflict and insecurity plaguing North and West Africa and civil war lingering in Syria, people continue to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea on makeshift boats to seek sanctuary in Europe.

In a place where public services no longer function these unarmed volunteers risk their lives to help anyone in need, regardless of their religion or politics. These volunteer rescue workers have saved over 60,000 lives.

Delay for either of these reasons would be a very selfish act. Monti should not risk European stability for his personal benefit.

By playing to the instincts of the extreme right, Sarkozy runs the risk of reinforcing a decaying party, whose electorate he attracted during the last presidential election in 2007, but which may regain its voters in 2010.

Afghanistan connects Central and South Asia, and a breakdown of order there would pose grave risks in both directions. Moreover, the world not just the West, but Russia and China as well would risk global proliferation of drugs, weapons, and terror.

Ms. Rasheed (Palestine) associated herself with the statement made by the representative of Egypt and asked why a linkage had been made in paragraph 36 between post 11 September counter terrorism measures and the aerial bombing of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, potentially causing a dangerous confusion.

And, a few days ago, Jens Weidmann, the president of the Bundesbank, publicly warned that the world risks a harmful and ultimately futile round of competitive exchange rate depreciations or, more bluntly, a currency war (a term used previously by Brazil to express similar concerns).

Its leaders are increasingly out of step with the public s expectation of ethical and conscientious behavior. If they fail to generate new ideas and devise novel approaches, their problems will only multiply further.

Why would the North Korean regime jeopardize its relationship with China, the only country that could bring it down immediately, just to execute one official? Assuming that Kim is rational, he must have had good reason to believe that the Chinese lifeline would be sustained, even if he executed China s favorite North Korean interlocutor.