Drogba's sensational season has seen him crowned Caf's African Player of the Year and silence the critics who once slammed him for going to ground too easily.
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The biggest broadcast event of the year was suddenly jolted by silence and darkness when a portion of the Super Dome in New Orleans lost power early in the game's second half.
Surprisingly, it had been 13 years since we last heard a studio album of new recordings, but that silence ended earlier this year when he released his latest album, The Way of the World.
New York (CNN) -- Sunday's graduation ceremony at Hofstra University was a bittersweet affair marked by a moment of silence for a 21-year-old student killed by a police officer two days ago.
By breaking his 10-year musical silence, Bowie unsurprisingly prompted a flurry of praise on Twitter.
It doesn't seem much to ask that other journalists -- and why not also political leaders and willing members of the public -- should stop for a minute's silence on one day each year, May the third, to pay tribute and reflect on the courage of those who have died for our right to know.
With less than a year set for general elections, this silence does not bode well for the future of Mr Singh's government and the Congress party.
Bush and first lady Laura Bush will begin the one-year anniversary of the attacks at a private church service in Washington before attending a moment of silence at the White House at 8:46 a.m.
For Hun Sen, who has officially retreated into silence until the end of April to mourn the death of his 79-year-old mother, the stakes have never been higher.
Peculiarly, the Four Corners programme - fronted by same journalist, Sarah Ferguson, who was behind the Code of Silence expose of rugby league in 2009 - received its lowest viewing of the year.
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