The village elders, who remembered Bartels from the times she'd visited with her mother, had decided to anoint her as their new ruler.

CNN: February 1, 2013 -- Updated 0959 GMT (1759 HKT)

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is staking her future on a power-sharing deal with a military ruler she hopes can help restore her family's name to center stage in the nation's political arena.

NPR: Bhutto Stakes Her Future on Power-Sharing Deal

When she queried this, he said his hand was hurting him then told her his mother had hit him with a ruler.

BBC: Yaseen Ali Ege

The Iran of her childhood is gone but the one of her memories is a place no relative or ruler can destroy: a land of sweet shops, snowy mountains and heroes and heroines from a glorious if mythical past.

ECONOMIST: Memoir of Iran

Although ostensibly a moral fable based on the Greek myth of Apollo and Alphisa, its libretto, ascribed to Louis de Cahusac, contains what were then quite radical thoughts about the nature of a woman's right to choose her partner, and the role of the people in deciding on a ruler.

ECONOMIST: The London Proms