Mary covered her eyes during the scary scenes.

Each of them was motivated by the horrific lessons of the past.

None of these dire predictions has been borne out by events.

One of the scariest things about the tsunami that I've not seen mentioned is the complete lack of information.

COPENHAGEN When it comes to global warming, extreme scare stories abound.

A stupid competition arose between two nightmares, the Holocaust and the Gulag, totalitarian Nazism and totalitarian communism.

One of the worst violences I ever saw is woman against woman.

I have travelled a lot around the Altiplano region, I say. I have heard some beautiful stories, and also some terrifying ones.

UK artist Kerry Beall decided to paint portraits of those who had lost their lives.

Never in their wildest dreams did they imagine being driven from power altogether.

Shark finning is a cruel and devastating practice where sharks are mutilated to extract their fins, and then returned to the sea without them, where the animal dies after suffering a desperate agony

Today, Afghans are increasingly united against some of the worst acts of terrorism in the world, which have found a home in their country.

Muslim intellectuals are being encouraged to press the religious argument against fundamentalist violence in order to deprive the terrorists of their most fearsome and potent arguments.

That other was drowned of course it was wrong, but it had been the only way of escape and it was better not to recall such terrible details.

A South Sudanese journalist in Juba told Global Voices that he spent his time confined to his bathroom during the worst part of armed violence that followed

This is especially interesting since it fundamentally rejects one of the most harrowing scenes from Al Gore s movie An Inconvenient Truth . In graphic detail, Gore demonstrated how a 20 foot rise in the sea level would inundate much of Florida, Shanghai, and Holland.

With charm and unassuming clear headedness, she wrought a compromise from the G8 countries that may help save the world from the most severe devastations caused by global warming.

This is especially interesting since it fundamentally rejects one of the most harrowing scenes from Al Gore s movie An Inconvenient Truth .

In Guangxi province, where some of the worst violence occurred, nearly 100,000 people were killed during July and August 1968.

It seemed to her that his large, dreadful eyes, which followed her insistently, expressed hatred and irony, and she tried to avoid encountering him.

Recently, she says, I saw a patient spend 14 days in emergency, in great pain, without anything being done to ease her suffering.

But ensuring that justice is done, as US Secretary of State Colin Powell promised, means that judgment must not stop at the low ranking soldiers who were foolish enough to pose for demented snapshots.

There is growing evidence that the stress of transition is the leading cause of death, even above big killers in postcommunist Russia such as alcohol, murder, and AIDS.

Moreover, for every South Korea, and every Hong Kong, we can also find developing countries where expanding education merely fueled competition for white collar jobs in a bloated, deadweight state bureaucracy.

Some of the worst abuses have surfaced in Texas, America's death penalty capital and home to more prisoners than Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands combined.

The evidence of what Nazi Germany did is so powerful that those who deny it can probably be dealt with even without putting them in prison and thereby drawing more attention to them than they deserve.