A selection of some of the more memorable quotes from the week...
I have never been scared before. This time the planes were trying to kill us all.
Hassan Nourdine (94), a resident of the Lebanese border town of Serifa, which has been bombarded by Israeli forces.
Our aid operation is like a patient starved of oxygen, facing paralysis, verging on death, if we cannot open up our vital supply lines.
Zlatan Milisic, UN World Food Programme emergency co-ordinator in Lebanon, on how fighting in the south has made it almost impossible to deliver aid to civilians.
Can we have an entirely foolproof system? Probably, but at what cost, psychologically or economically?
Frank Cilluffo, director of the homeland security policy institute at George Washington University, saying a ban on liquids on passenger planes after this week's security alert is not feasible.
They're telling me to go home. I'm telling them I'm trying to go home. That is why I am here.
Boston resident Tom O'Donnell stranded at Heathrow airport during this week's security alert.
We try to be happy even when it is difficult. It's in our DNA.
Wedding planner Amit Bar Tzion in Tel Aviv, saying that for most Israelis life continues as normal.
Your call cannot be completed because the subscriber has been kidnapped.
A novelty phone message popular with teenagers in Iraq, where mobile phone ownership is booming.
Nobody is talking about reform in Saudi Arabia. All we talk about is the war.
Fawziah al-Bakr, a women's rights advocate in Saudi Arabia, saying US support for Israel is hurting moderates across the Arab world.
I support the policies of the president without question. But whenever I try to say that publicly, reporters look for even a hint of nuance, for a way to drive a wedge between myself and the president.
George Bush snr backing his son.
There are a lot of tensions among prisoners. You basically have to keep to yourself and not engage in any arguments with anyone.
Joao Marques, released this week from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, describing conditions there.
While arrogance and insensitivity on the part of the medical profession may have been a feature of the practice of removing, retaining, storing and disposing of organs, the inquiry found no evidence of malice or ulterior motive.
Anne Dunne, who chaired the inquiry into the retention of children's organs by hospitals.
Sunny in the short term, but there are clouds on the horizon.
The International Monetary Fund issuing a forecast for the Irish economy.
If some outfit wanted to wipe out the 320 mountain gorillas in Rwanda, we would see far, far more international reaction than if they wanted to slaughter thousands of human beings.
Gen Romeo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda, which was unable to halt the genocide in 1994, when 800,000 people were slaughtered.