Friday's positive day marked a relatively quiet close to a week that had disrupted the sense of calm that characterized the year so far.
It also comes on the eve of a trip to Europe by Bush's special envoy to Iraq -- former secretary of state James Baker -- who is being dispatched to the region to try to calm last week's diplomatic feud and to get those nations to forgive billions of dollars of Iraqi debt.
But Home Secretary Theresa May was said to be very unhappy after Sir Hugh rejected suggestions that the restoration of calm after the riots in England last week was due to political intervention, says the BBC's Danny Shaw.
This week's appointment of a Muslim prefect in Jura will not calm fears that Islam is being stigmatised.
To stop the financial crisis in Greece from spreading and to calm financial markets, which dived last week because of concerns about the eurozone.
But that may not be enough to calm investors heading into what promises to be an eventful week of trading.
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He spoke to CNN as an uneasy calm hung over the Kenyan capital Friday, after almost a week of violence that, according to government figures, has left at least 300 people dead and up to 75, 000 people internally displaced.
But Holy Week, the Christian festival that commemorates the last week of Jesus' life, is a solemn celebration, and once mass begins, a calm settles over the congregation.
The unequivocal public condemnation of the murder by Mr Adams and Mr McGuinness this week helped Mr Paisley and his party to remain calm.
There is a sense of frustration across the eurozone that last week's summit in Brussels seems to have done little to calm the financial markets, the BBC's Chris Morris reports.
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