What scares you about Abu Musab after he's dead? - Osama bin Laden calls on the US authorities to release for burial the body of slain terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
What this says is that the administration can no longer simply decide arbitrarily what it wants to do with people.
- Michael Ratner, president of the US Centre for Constitutional Rights, after the US Supreme Court ruled the Bush administration cannot order military trials for Guantánamo detainees without the protections of the Geneva Convention and American law.
The horror, again.
- A headline in La Libre Belgique, as the bodies of two stepsisters from Liege are discovered 18 days after their disappearance.
Until the day I die, I will remember the rasping sound of a knife being pulled from a leather scabbard and the impression that leaves on one's mind.
- Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny vividly recalls being mugged, in Kenya.
It is only an excuse that they are launching this war for this soldier.
- Ismail Haniya, Palestinian prime minister, as Israel unleashes a military barrage on Gaza, where an Israeli tank commander is held by militants.
This is the last chance for this generation to make this process work.
- British prime minister Tony Blair cautions Northern political leaders that devolution won't be on the table forever.
Not at all. I'd say most people in the parliamentary party would rule themselves in.
- Liz O'Donnell of the Progressive Democrats when asked whether she would rule herself out of a future contest for the party leadership.
Retirement? I'm sorry to tell them that it won't be after this match.
- France veteran Zinedine Zidane leads his team to the World Cup quarter-finals.
I never get tired of listening to his songs no matter how many times I hear them.
- Japan's prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, an Elvis obsessive, is to visit the singer's Graceland tomb in the company of president George Bush during a state visit to the US.
We're very thankful to the Americans. They paved the way for us in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Lebanon, too - our influence has increased due to the Syrians leaving. They've pushed up the oil price. Thank you!
- Aliakbar Rezaei, a senior Iranian diplomat, says American intervention has strengthened Tehran's hand.
Is he going to sack Frank Fahey? Is he happy with the standards being set in Government by his Minister?
- Green Party leader Trevor Sargent launches a Dáil attack on Minister of State Frank Fahey.
If our whole healthcare system is wrong, we shouldn't have GPs at all.
- Taoiseach Bertie Ahern defends the health system.
This is my last attempt to reach out and touch you.
- A note accompanying the severed finger jilted boyfriend Robert Hanna, from Texas, is believed to have posted to his former girlfriend in an attempt to win her back.
It is possible to modernise holy music. But it should not happen outside the traditional path of Gregorian chants or sacred polyphonic choral music.
- No more guitars or tambourines in church, warns Pope Benedict XVI.