This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in. US president George Bush delivers a sober state of the union address.
We must give a soul to Europe; we have to find Europe's soul.
German chancellor Angela Merkel, the new EU president, attempts to resurrect the EU constitution.
We have to accept there is a significant risk at all times if we have people working huge hours.
The chief executive of the Health Service Executive, Prof Brendan Drumm, says hospital patients are being put at risk due to the amount of overtime doctors are working.
When I was six, I attended an Indonesian public school where a bunch of the kids were Muslim, because the country is 90 per cent Muslim. The notion that somehow, at the age of six or seven, I was being trained for something other than math, science and reading, is ludicrous.
US Democratic senator Barack Obama, who is expected to run for president, responds to claims he was educated at a fundamentalist school in Indonesia.
Such statements give moral boosts to the terrorists.
Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki as the Bush administration says the Iraqi government is on "borrowed time".
The genocide may not be done. There are still plenty of people to kill.
Lawrence Rossin, a former US ambassador now acting as international co-ordinator of the Save Darfur Coalition, says that even after the deaths of an estimated 400,000 people in the region the situation could still get worse.
The Chinese are telling the Pentagon that they don't own space.
Michael Krepon, of the Henry L Stimson Centre in Washington, as China successfully shoots down a satellite from outer space.
Just because Hitler misused the symbol, abused it and used it to propagate a reign of terror and racism and discrimination does not mean that its peaceful use should be banned.
Ramesh Kallidai, of the Hindu Forum of Britain, on a proposed EU ban of the swastika, which was used by Hindus as a peace symbol for 5,000 years.
To see his image and the beautiful feelings it has created during my lifetime cheapened by base advertising . . . is very disappointing to me.
Red Hot Chili Peppers' bass player Michael "Flea" Balzary is upset at plans for a Jimi Hendrix-themed soft drink.
Some people don't want to see the reality.
Joe McGrath, a Canadian actor who hoodwinked an Oireachtas committee into believing he had the HIV virus, at a presentation on Aids strategies this week.
The current attitude towards nuclear, not even allowing a debate at official level, is short-sighted.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions calls on the Government to lead a debate on whether Ireland should adopt nuclear power.
Are the nominations tomorrow? I better start getting excited. A nomination wouldn't mean a sausage, though if I won the f***er . . .
The veteran actor Peter O'Toole, who has collected his eighth best actor Oscar nomination.
She was a mystic who was convinced a miracle could happen at Lourdes.
Gerard Aldige, a French state prosecutor, commenting on the case of British woman Irene Kearney, who secretly kept the body of daughter Marian believing that, because their house was near Lourdes shrine, a "miracle" would restore her to life.
We have a mishmash of names. We are trying to market the city for inward investment, and we need one name.
Kevin Campbell, a Sinn Féin councillor in Derry after a move by the mainly nationalist city council to have its official name changed from Londonderry to Derry was rejected by the Belfast High Court.