Violence in Iraq has escalated this past week with hundreds killed in a series of bombings.

NPR: Iraq Seeks Sunni Support for Constitution

The Giants got a new ballpark, a world series team and hundreds of sellouts.

NPR: Barry Bonds May Be Headed for Retirement

Police suspect thieves may be targeting silver golf trophies to sell on for scrap after hundreds were stolen in a series of raids at golf clubs.

BBC: Golf trophies may be being targeted by silver thieves

Immediately afterwards Swiss prosecutors launched a major investigation into money-laundering and froze a series of Takilant accounts containing hundreds of millions of US dollars.

BBC: Uzbekistan's Gulnara Karimova linked to telecoms scandal

Martin, author of the best-selling series "A Song of Ice and Fire, " was signing hundreds of books.

WSJ: Wool: Sci-Fi's Underground Hit

Hundreds of teams at all levels of college baseball, including five of the last six College World Series champions, have ditched body signals altogether in favor of a system in which the coach flashes or yells a series of numbers.

WSJ: College World Series: College Baseball Showing Signs of a Revolution With Catcher Wristbands

His papacy also has been marked with a series of scandals and controversies, including hundreds of new allegations of sexual abuse by priests.

CNN: Pope Benedict to resign at the end of the month, Vatican says

When they broke away, no one anticipated a series of wars which would devastate the region and claim hundreds of thousands of lives.

BBC: Analysis: Motives behind Yugoslavia's demise

Mr. Karzai has signaled his willingness to provide that immunity in exchange for a series of U.S. assurances, including that hundreds of Afghan detainees now held by U.S. troops would be turned over to the Afghan government.

WSJ: Obama to Speed Troop Exit

Ravi Bopara was named as England's man of the series after becoming only the fifth batsman to score three successive Test hundreds for his country.

BBC: Anderson a world beater - Strauss