These are Mr Obama's battle lines - his tactics, not his war cry.

BBC: Defiant Obama speech draws battle lines

Allowing parties to operate would make Mr Besigye's war-cry sound hollow.

ECONOMIST: Uganda moves towards becoming a multi-party democracy

The collaborative picture Facebook paints is a far cry from the ultra-competitive war among mobile platforms with Google, Apple, Facebook, and others vying for consumers' hearts and minds.

CNN: Report: Facebook making phone, code-named 'Buffy'

But it's still a far cry from the vicious and seemingly intractable war in Syria.

CNN: War-torn Syria issues travel warning against Turkey

Europe's war games are a far cry from those in America, where governments have heard scarcely a squeak of pain, despite the halving of employment in defence, to 2m, over the past decade.

ECONOMIST: European armaments

"Turtles Can Fly" is a cry of anguish for the youngest victims of every war.

WSJ: Sinking Spirits

This new sanctimoniousness, said officials, was a precaution to ward off a hue-and-cry from Jordan's Islamists, already restive over King Abdullah's hands-off approach to the looming war on Iraq.

ECONOMIST: A paper that dipped into Muhammad's sex-life is banned