The recently announced World Alzheimer Report places a shocking financial cost on care linked to dementia, or loss of mental abilities.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

Pictures taken from the air after the tsunami also showed a shocking loss of land.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Another shocking event took place a few days later.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

In a shocking result, world record holder Elena Isinbaeva of Russia failed to medal in the pole vault.

VOA: standard.2009.08.18

That was a shocking thing to her family and to neighbors."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

It is about a shocking betrayal of the public trust,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

"For the markets right now, it is a shock because everybody is waiting to see what can come next because such a shocking effect, to do it overnight, is not good for a market which is keen on transparency."

VOA: standard.2010.05.19