Furthermore, we need to join hands in cleansing this region of the remaining shadows of the Second World War and the Cold War.

CNN: Opinion: Toward a new security order in Northeast Asia

We like to think that our intelligence agencies are adequately equipped, staffed and authorized to wage political warfare in the dark shadows of black operations around the world, but this is wishful thinking.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Since the ban, the bugs have boomed, emerging from the shadows to prey on the warm bodies of unsuspecting travellers across the world.

BBC: Bees on their knees while bed bugs boom

The bid document said Hull was "finding its place in the UK, a city coming out of the shadows and re-establishing its reputation as a gateway that welcomes the world".

BBC: Hull reveals plans behind UK City of Culture bid

But the rest of the world needs to pay more attention to this conflict in the shadows.

WSJ: Sadanand Dhume: The Plight of Pakistan's Shia

What frightens her is the possibility that we will become so immobilised by dreams and shadows, so free of pain, mentally standardised by the cyber-world that is our principal habitat and rendered oblivious by chemicals, that we will have lost the ability to choose.

ECONOMIST: The future

However, its problems began when sharp-eyed players noticed that the fifteen years it had taken to develop had apparently not left enough time to create backgrounds, which had been lifted from The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, World of Warcraft, Thief: Deadly Shadows and elsewhere.

FORBES: EA Sues Zynga, But Deeper Social Issues Threaten

But normally, save for the odd urban explorer or raver illegally slipping onto the tracks for a nose around or a dance, this eerie world of shadows and ghosts has been all but forgotten.

BBC: Reawakening the Underground