In a world shocked by the indiscriminate violence of terrorism, new threats are always just beyond the horizon.
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Property prices and stock markets languished below their pre-1929 levels until World War II shocked production back to life.
Schiavone then shocked world number nine Svetlana Kuznetsova 1-6 6-2 6-3 in a match that lasted two hours 21 minutes.
Meanwhile, Juan Martin del Potro shocked World No.1 and home favorite Roger Federer in the final of the ATP tournament in Basel.
On Friday night, France shocked world champions South Africa 20-13 in Toulouse.
Poland's Urszula Radwanska beat Tamira Paszek of Austria 2-6 6-0 6-2, while home hope Jarmila Gajdosova shocked world number 16 Roberta Vinci of Italy 4-6 6-1 6-3 to set up a clash with second seed Sharapova.
Recent talk of a Qatar-backed "Dream Football League, " which would have offered huge paydays to the world's top clubs to appear in a biannual tournament, briefly shocked the soccer world until the project proved to be a hoax.
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The pontiff, 85, shocked the world's biggest Christian Church on Monday when he announced his resignation.
The collapse in April of the eight-story Rana Plaza building just outside Dhaka, which housed five garment factories, has shocked the world.
News Monday that Benedict was stepping down at the end of February "because of advanced age" shocked the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
He shocked the world Monday when he announced his intention to stand down on February 28, citing the frailty of old age.
This week, 28 years after Richard Nixon shocked the world by opening relations with China, America has finally moved to normalise trade with the Asian giant.
Charbonnier might have pointed to the decision three years ago by Yale University Press to publish a book by Jytte Klausen called "The Cartoons That Shocked The World" -- without publishing the cartoons.
Has Mr. Elop steered Nokia to the greatest comeback since the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, in which another lumbering and supposedly past-its-prime heavyweight shocked the world?
Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI is not suffering from any specific disease that forced him to resign, his spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the news that he was stepping down shocked the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
Hindenburg, for instance, and even the torpedoing, just three years after the Titanic sank, of the Lusitania, another great liner whose passenger list boasted the rich and the famous, were calamities that shocked the world but have failed to generate an obsessive preoccupation.
So, late on election night, the suits are up in their suites, brooding and trying to look confident, waiting for the Glocca Morra vote to roll in and save them, and Jesse is strutting tall turkey at his campaign headquarters at the racetrack, looking like everyone's nightmare of a brother-in-law, shaking his big fist, yelling, "We shocked the world!"
Many in the world of public health were shocked when Yach took the job.
He shocked the investing world when he announced his retirement at the precocious age of 38.
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In 1999, AOL shocked the online world when it bought internet pioneer Netscape.
The Chargers shocked the football world by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game to get to the Super Bowl.
The Newbridge bruiser, trained by Enzo Calzaghe, shocked the boxing world last July when he comprehensively demolished classy world champion Souleymane M'baye in Cardiff.
The Los Angeles Lakers shocked the sports world on Friday when they fired second year c oach Mike Brown after only five games in the 2012-13 NBA season.
Polunin, who at 19 became the Royal Ballet's youngest male principal, shocked the dance world in January 2012 by unexpectedly quitting a week before he was due to appear as the lead in a production of The Dream.
He was behind early against Yang, but rolled home a string of birdie putts against a man who shocked the golfing world by coming from two shots behind Woods in the final round to claim his first major.
Fox network shocked the TV world when it won the rights to broadcast National Football League games, outbidding CBS. Just as that deal proved a Trojan Horse for getting Fox into the broadcast mainstream, so it will be with iTV.
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Benedict shocked the Roman Catholic world when he announced his resignation two weeks ago.
The Welsh teenager, the youngest player to compete in World Bowls' flagship event, shocked Chisholm at the Potters Leisure Resort in Hopton on Sea.
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