Then, eight years later, strong winds split the bridge in two.

NPR: Study Answers Question of Why Bridges Collapse

Obama and others are touting such efforts as signs that the country can bridge one of its deepest cultural divides: The split between mostly rural Americans who cherish guns for hunting and self-defense and urban citizens who equate them with gang violence, drive-by shootings and young lives lost.

NPR: US Arms Control Advocates Must Show They Like Guns

Wales needs another 700 families willing to become foster carers in order to bridge the gap which has meant that brothers and sisters are being split up and divided among different families.

BBC: Cash crisis has left Wales short of 700 foster families