We need to be looked up to and not just feared.US presidential candidate John Kerry outlines his vision of America's place in the world at the Democratic Convention in Boston
I'm going to be candid with you. I had hoped to be back here this week under different circumstances, running for re-election. But you know the old saying: you win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category.
Al Gore, the former vice-president, addresses the convention
One of Saddam's poems is about George Bush, but I had no time to read it.
Bakhtiar Amin, Iraq's human rights minister, who visited Saddam Hussein in prison
On the Sunday menu you would have a beautiful soup and a full breast of chicken or a huge pork chop, carrots or broccoli and a choice between potatoes and rice. And the quantities: they were unbelievable.
Former assistant Dublin city and county manager, George Redmond, enthuses about the cuisine at Clover Hill Prison, where he was jailed on corruption charges. The conviction was overturned this week
This is not even relocation - it is moving the chairs on the Titanic.
Dr Michael Bannon, a professor of planning at UCD, criticises the government's decentralisation plan
Bertie obviously puts a lot of time and effort into the way he looks, his dress, his grooming.
Francis Jones, corporate image consultant with Colour Me Beautiful, as it emerges that Mr Ahern has spent €140,000 on cosmetics since becoming Taoiseach
He seems to think he has the God-given right to do these things.
Judge Murrough Connellan convicts a vehicle-clamper of dangerous driving and obstructing traffic
He said he wanted to kill someone. Someone no one would really care about.
A friend of a 15-year-old Mountmellick schoolboy recalls his words days before he battered another teenager to death
Today's context is rendering independent humanitarian aid for the Afghan people all but impossible.
Aid agency Médecins sans Frontières announces it is withdrawing from Afghanistan because conditions in the country are too dangerous for its volunteers
I can't even imagine how a sane human being could have these images locked in their brain. This will affect me for the rest of my life.
Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones says death threats have been made against her by an alleged female stalker
Luciano Liboni is my god.
Graffiti along an Italian roadside testifies to the cult that has sprung up around on-the-run criminal Luciano Liboni after he allegedly murdered a policeman at point-blank range last week
The television offers would come thick and fast. There'd be books, films, consulting on Footballers' Wives. All sorts.
Publicist Max Clifford says Faria Alam could net £1 million if she cashes in on media interest in her alleged fling with England soccer coach Sven Goran Eriksson.
What kind of a country is this where people do whatever they can to avoid contact with the police? They're supposed to be there to protect you. In reality it's either a bribe or a beating.
Anna Stavitskaya, lawyer for Moscow student German Galdetsky, who suffered brain damage after an alleged police attack
This is an appeal concerning Polos, the mint with the hole in the middle. This is an appeal with a hole in the middle. It is dismissed.
Lord Justice Mummery throws out Nestlé's attempt in the UK to register a trademark showing the familiar shape of the mint but without the word "polo" embossed on it and without specification of size or colour