It's only by the grace of God that no-one was killed.

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Reza Aslan, the best-selling Iranian-American author of "No God But God, " was also a doubter before the speech.

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Mr Putin said he had thanked God that no big fragments of the meteor - which was thought to be made of iron and travelling at some 30km (19 miles) per second - had fallen in populated areas.

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"The farmers here -- we have no future -- we have to rely on God, " says Mohammed.

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In all the history of conflict though, there has been nothing, thank God, to compare to World War II - no mosaic so complex or so costly was ever built, nor one that contained so many pieces.

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