• But I'm very proud of the campaign she ran: She never quit on the people she stood up for, on the changes she pushed for, on the future she wants for all our children.

    NPR: Transcript: Bill Clinton's Prime-Time Speech

  • They took her to the market at noon on Jan. 4, the same place where she bought the beef for the brochettes she sold and the flour used to make her mother's flatbread.

    NPR: Woman In Timbuktu Punished For Forbidden Love

  • In the diary, which she kept for the BBC's Urdu service under a pen name, she exposed the suffering caused by the militants as they ruled.

    BBC: Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan activist, 14, shot in Swat

  • The Philpotts wanted a bigger house, Mr Mosley allegedly told his friend, and Mrs Philpott apparently wrote a suicide note in which she took the blame for the fire, saying she would take the children with her next time.

    BBC: Derby

  • Chairwoman for the charity Pat Hartley said she feared for the future of the centre, as it would not be able to afford any fines.

    BBC: Sheffield sanctuary may 'destroy dogs' after complaints

  • If Errani's impressive performances at Roland Garros -- featuring wins over two former champions and two members of the top 10 -- might not have had a fairytale ending, those rankings will provide some consolation for the Italian as she enters the top 10 for the first time.

    CNN: Sharapova overpowers Errani to win French Open

  • Noemi had the opportunity to take an easier path but she opted for the harder one because she is a woman of courage and conviction.

    FORBES: Courage: What We Can Learn From a Cyclist Who Said No to Doping

  • "I consider that she has expressed little real remorse for what she did, rather the sorrow and regret which she expressed to the police was largely because of the situation in which she found herself, and not for the events in which she played her part, " he said.

    BBC: Stewart did not have a spark of compassion for husband

  • "She got quite an unlucky lbw or I think she was definitely going on to get her first hundred, which she deserved for the effort she put into her innings, " Edwards commented.

    BBC: Clare Connor is a hard act to follow.

  • Katsuko says she is grateful for the three meals she and her husband are receiving at the centre, for the heat that is provided.

    BBC: Japan quake: Aid worker's diary

  • After all, Johnson noted, "She will now be fighting for the very things she and her husband fought for in the campaign" on issues ranging from the health care overall to the economy and she won't be delivering negative attacks.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • In the memoir, Knox describes getting emotional as she watched the footage of the man she initially blamed for the murder, Patrick Lumumba, walking out of prison as a free man and standing with his wife and baby after he was cleared.

    BBC: Amanda Knox and prison life

  • Under cross-examination, however, she conceded she had no contract with Christianson, the company that supposedly was her general contractor, and there was no proposal or bid, and that when she bought hardware for the kitchen she sent it not the Christianson but to one of Allen's employees at Allen's corporate offices.

    NPR: Sen. Stevens Will Be Back On The Witness Stand

  • Every Wednesday, for example, she babysat for the children of her granddaughter the nursing student.

    FORBES: 85-Year-Old Graduates From College -- And Finds A Job

  • Last week, in the early hours of Nov. 5 and three years into a five-year term, Bhutto was sacked again -- this time by Farooq Ahmed Leghari, the man she backed for the presidency.

    CNN: The Sacking of Benazir

  • Harris, who plays British agent Eve, said she tried to avoid watching the performances of previous Bond girls as she prepared for the role.

    BBC: Skyfall premiere is biggest and best - Daniel Craig

  • The court heard that Hilschenz told police that when she was pregnant for the fourth time, she gave birth to the baby in a toilet and the baby allegedly drowned.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | German convicted over baby deaths

  • She said that the association understood the pressures on Royal Mail, but she called for the group to extend its price freeze this winter to all pensioners, not just those on certain benefits.

    BBC: Stamp prices: First-class stamps to cost 60p

  • She has missed out on qualification for the World Championships taking place in China this month because she was ill for the first qualifying event and didn't take part in the second because of exams.

    BBC: Decision time for British swimmer Achieng Ajulu-Bushell

  • Those indications that this verdict was based on emotion are contrary to Ms. Moran's efforts to keep back the sympathy that she felt for the Goldman and the Brown family.

    CNN: Juror says key witnesses lacked credibility

  • She paid for the trips herself, she said.

    CNN: Satisfied Senate committee goes easy on Moseley-Braun

  • In a 2001 interview with the BBC, after she had won the WHSmith Book Award for fiction, Binchy described the five rejections she received for her first novel as "a slap in the face".

    BBC: Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72

  • Take the strapless gold column she wore for the state dinner with former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

    FORBES: Michelle Obama's State Dinner Dress: Daring or Pandering?

  • In 1940, when the Russians occupied Latvia, Mrs Wraga was moved to Switzerland, and after the second world war she worked for the State Department in Washington.

    ECONOMIST: Natalie Wraga

  • She explained Thursday she put the brakes on -- prompting her child's panic -- because she was fumbling for the headlights in the darkness, and because she hesitated, wondering if the family was going to make it out or whether she and Gulick should turn around.

    CNN: Family films frantic escape from Colorado wildfire

  • But at The Economist she is remembered for her long stewardship of the American Survey, which she joined in 1948, just seven years after it was started, and which she edited for most of the next quarter-century.

    ECONOMIST: Nancy Balfour

  • She said the Highways Agency's 13-day supply had proved insufficient and she called for the creation of extra salt storage depots.

    BBC: Transport statement

  • Missy Franklin, the 17-year-old swimmer from Colorado, scored more gold for America with a gutsy performance in the 100-meter backstroke Monday night just 14 minutes after she qualified for the finals of the 200-meter freestyle.

    FORBES: The Olympics: An Amazing Display Of Teen Leadership

  • But when I mentioned my trip to her home country, she confided for the first time how many nights she's spent crying.

    NPR: Filipino Families Divided by Distance, Economics

  • "There is only so much you can do, " shrugs Maruyama Mie, a Tokyo nurse, who says she will prepare for the new millennium as she would for an earthquake, by purchasing a week's worth of necessities and getting copies of her financial records.

    CNN: Page 4

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