• What causes it: Inflammation of the plantar fascia, a thick band of tissue that runs along the bottom of your foot from the heel to the toes.

    CNN: Why your feet hurt

  • Melchiot was denied a 25th-minute opener when Giles Barnes appeared to clear the defender's five-yard back-heel from behind the goal-line.

    BBC: Wigan 2-0 Derby

  • Holden had the ball in the back of the net from Sturridge's classy back-heel but the ball was deemed to have gone out of play, while Sturridge and Elmander could have made it worse for the visitors but their shots were narrowly wide.

    BBC: Gary Cahill scores for Bolton

  • The Englishman landed Motherwell's equaliser 60 seconds later after McHugh delivered a fine cross from the right for Jutkiewicz to back-heel past a hapless Artur Boruc.

    BBC: Georgios Samaras

  • Injuries to the porous part of the heel and the top of the shinbone are particularly hard to recover from.

    FORBES: Smart Dummies

  • More than 2 million Americans suffer from debilitating heel pain stemming from inflammation of the plantar fascia, a fibrous band of tissue that supports the arch of the foot.

    FORBES: The Big Hurt

  • Female desirability begins to be constructed in terms of irrational fashion and the high heel - once separated from its original function of horseback riding - becomes a primary example of impractical dress.

    BBC: Why did men stop wearing high heels?

  • "There is a shift in sensibility happening now shoppers are moving away from conspicuous It-bags, the vertiginous platform heel and gaudy in-your-face jewels, " said Kate Davidson Hudson, co-founder of the newly launched accessories shopping site Editorialist.

    WSJ: Stealing Style From Granny

  • Eagles put Burnley ahead after Jack Cork's sublime back-heel and struck from close range after the break.

    BBC: Burnley 3-1 Burton Albion

  • An isolated, eccentric community near New Mexico's boot heel, Columbus sits just three dusty miles from the international border.

    CNN: On the border: Guns, drugs -- and a betrayal of trust

  • He warned that competitiveness remained Europe's "Achilles heel", with the single market incomplete and "unnecessary" measures from Brussels burdening businesses and destroying jobs.

    BBC: David Cameron urges European leaders to 'be bolder'

  • The elephant distributes its weight at least over all 4 feet, and even if standing on one leg, over the area of the one foot- you might actually get more damage from a good stomp with a heel that has a small surface area.

    FORBES: Can High Heels, Pink Pistols, And An Easy Bake Oven Kill The Indestructible Smart Phone?

  • Spine, horn and claw become heel, last and vamp, a frightening yet beautiful evocation of the primordial soup from whence we came.

    WSJ: High-Concept Enchantments: Review of Shoe Obsession at the Museum at FIT

  • Obama has pledged to defend Dodd-Frank from these attacks, but the incredible vastness and complexity of the law may prove to be its Achilles heel.

    FORBES: Dodd-Frank: Where Is The Love?

  • But as I argued in my post a while back, Why Amazon is the Best Strategic Player in Tech, PR is their Achilles Heel (they could learn from Zappos, which they acquired).

    FORBES: Amazon Needs a Public Editor

  • Where is the angry performance art from the brilliant Bart Scott, who concluded Sunday's Pats upset by thundering at ESPN like a WWE heel?

    WSJ: Why Are the Jets Being So Polite?

  • Four minutes from time, Bradley, who had seemed to be affected by his well-publicised heel injury in the second period, won a vital free and Muldoon's kick put two between the sides again.

    BBC: SPORT | Northern Ireland | Gaelic Games | Derry edge out Westmeath

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