Making each picture was like throwing a stone without knowing where it would land, how close to the unknowable and unreachable.

ECONOMIST: Avigdor Arikha, painter of life, died on April 29th, aged 81

Mr. Merah was brought before a judge for the first time at age 16, for allegedly throwing a stone at a bus.

WSJ: French Killer Mohamed Merah's Path to Jihadist Rampage

Judges in the case accepted that a murder charge was unusual in relation to a stone throwing incident.

BBC: Palestinian stone thrower to appeal murder conviction

The paper says that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat afterwards apologised and distanced himself from the stone-throwing students.

BBC: Mixed media reaction for Jospin

One of the firemen was still in hospital being treated for a neck injury on Thursday night after the stone-throwing incident in the west of the city.

BBC: Concern about attacks on fire crews

Baghdad (CNN) -- At least five people were injured when bodyguards for a top Iraqi official opened fire on stone-throwing Sunni demonstrators Sunday, the country's interior ministry said.

CNN: Clashes erupt at Iraqi protest as sectarian tensions flare

Spectators are enthralled by coconut tree climbing, stone lifting, spear throwing and outrigger sailing in a Polynesian version of Scotland's Highland Games.

BBC: Getting in the Tahitian spirit