How many people go to the middle of the desert 10 miles from the Syrian border to hold a wedding 80 miles from the nearest civilisation? Maj Gen James Mattis, commander of the US 1st Marine Division, defends an attack on a remote Iraqi village where a wedding is said to have been taking place. A total of 45 people were reported killed in the assault.
Our enemies are still there and will do anything to intimidate Iraqis to derail the political process.
Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister, on the assassination of the head of the country's Governing Council in a suicide bombing.
A very nice man. I would rather meet him than George Bush.
Jack Roche, Australian terrorist suspect, describes lunch with Osama bin Laden.
The 21st century needs to be India's century.
Manmohan Singh, prime minister-elect of India.
Unnecessary, disproportionate, unjustified and deliberate.
Donatella Rovera, of Amnesty Internationals's Middle East programme, on the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
The Northern Ireland authorities went into hiding and refused to attend ... if people had co-operated formally and taken part in this we would have got a lot more answers.
Bernadette McNally, of Justice for the Forgotten as the jury at the Dublin and Monaghan bombing inquest delivers its verdict.
The last people to touch him, to speak to him, were not the people he would ever associate with in any way.
Marie Scully as two men are convicted for the murder of her son, Christian Scully.
As an Irish citizen who has taken an honorary knighthood, as opposed to a knighthood, I neither will, nor could, use a title.
Don't call me "sir" says former EU Commissioner Peter Sutherland.
An attempt to dismantle the planning system.
Iain Douglas, president of the Irish Planning Institute, attacks the Government's rural housing policy.
This referendum will do nothing whatsoever to cure the abuses.
Former US Congressman Bruce Morrison - architect of the Morrison visa scheme - says the citizenship referendum won't stop exploitation of the asylum system.
The crew that we had out ... are presented with these sorts of scenarios on a regular basis. Some are genuine, the vast majority are not genuine.
Neil Cunningham, managing director of clamping firm Control Plus, which disabled two cars outside a doctor's surgery during a medical emergency.
Christians and Muslims that used to live together have become arch-enemies.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as religious violence threatens to engulf part of the country.
There was not a web of corruption.
Frank Feely, former city and county manager of Dublin, denies the city's planning system was rife with sleaze.
Exhausted, relieved, proud and delighted.
Clare O'Leary on becoming the first Irish woman to climb Everest.