Is it a coincidence that the average number of items sold and the average selling price both increased after implementing mobile point-of-sale devices?

FORBES: Nordstrom Sees Sales Boost From Mobile POS Devices

"It cannot be a coincidence that while the number of cases of MRSA has been going up, the number of cleaners employed has been going down, " he said.

BBC: Hand washing is key to reducing MRSA rates

Mr Olsen thinks it no coincidence that a disproportionate number of the Democrats' most vulnerable House seats in the South, the north-east and the Midwest are in districts dominated by blue-collar whites.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

That cyclists are leading the push to test amateurs is likely no coincidence, considering the large number of pros in that sport who have cheated, most notably Lance Armstrong, who late last year was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and who has since acknowledged doping during his cycling career.

WSJ: Cycling's Minor Leagues of Doping

It is not a coincidence that election year 2012 will begin with all the troops out of Iraq and a good number of them gone from Afghanistan.

BBC: Obama ends the long war