In the deeper mines the heat can reach 400 Celsius, and men work by the light of a single flame.

ECONOMIST: Under the ocean, up in the clouds

When the flames came together, "it didn't look at all like a cauldron, " he said, adding the it was key that all the flames merged "into a single flame - that was quite, quite important".

BBC: UK

They each lit a single tiny flame, igniting 205 copper "petals", one for each competing nation or territory.

BBC: South Scotland