On holidays, her children and grandchildren would visit her, their cars crowding the driveway and spilling onto the street, the lights in the house burning late into the night.

NEWYORKER: Alone

"For a fire to keep on burning late into the night, you need the logs to catch, and the world's economic firewood has long since been soaked by oversupply and feeble demand now exacerbated by a post-bubble psychology discouraging risk taking, " observes Gross, who still believes stocks are overvalued.

FORBES: Bondholders' Dilemma: Deflation Vs. Inflation

Harry Truman, late in life, caught his wife, Bess, burning their letters to each other.

NEWYORKER: State of the Union

Crowds rushed the embassy after Thursday's explosion, looting parts of the facility and burning pictures of Jordan's present King Abdullah II and his father, the late King Hussein.

CNN: Baghdad blast kills 10 at Jordanian Embassy

American Electric Power agreed late Friday in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, to retire or switch to natural gas two coal-burning units at the Muskingum River power plant in Ohio and the Tanners Creek power plant in Indiana by the end of 2015.

WSJ: Settlement binds power co. to stop burning coal

"When we compare changes in the black carbon to changes in these other indicators, it is clear that most of the increases in black carbon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly in winter and spring, resulted from industrial emissions - probably from coal burning, " he added.

BBC: Human activities have left a visible mark on the Arctic