We are called to honor them by doing our part for the loved ones our fallen heroes have left behind and looking after our military families.

WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Honoring the Fallen

"In their sorrow, these families need to know and families all across our nation of the fallen need to know that your loved ones served a cause that is good and just and noble, " Bush said.

NPR: Events Honor American Veterans

In many poor African countries such institutions barely exist, whereas in wealthier ones spending on them has fallen over the years.

ECONOMIST: Wheat rust and world farming

Why then, have most emerging stockmarkets fallen by more than Western ones, particularly in the past month?

ECONOMIST: Emerging markets

Bodies and belongings remained strewn amongst fallen boulders Monday as family members searched for loved ones in the rubble.

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