Quotes from the week
I was shocked at the poverty and hardship all these tens of thousands of people were undergoing.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon returns from a visit to refugee camps in Darfur.
There were tenors and there was Luciano Pavarotti.
Italian director Franco Zeffirelli on the opera legend who died this week.
This is a good day for security in Germany.
German federal prosecutor Monika Harms as suspected Islamic militants are detained for allegedly plotting bomb attacks on a US air force base in Germany and Frankfurt International Airport.
I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.
US president George Bush, quoted in a new book Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W Bush.
I felt it was the only way to resurrect the true strangeness of Dylan's physical being in 1966.
Movie director Todd Haynes, who cast Cate Blanchett to play Bob Dylan in his biopic I'm Not There, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival
There have been many promises made by the British forces regarding the security problems, but they failed to fulfil most of these.
Hakim al-Mayahi, an Iraqi security official in Basra, from which the British army has started to withdraw.
Thanks for the question, you little jerk. You're drafted.
US presidential candidate John McCain (71) asked by a high-school student if there's a danger he might die in office if elected.
All I can say is, "Save your comments until you see the movie."
Tom Cruise on his controversial turn as a German colonel who attempted to assassinate Hitler late in the second World War.
In Balbriggan the Catholic schools expanded to absolute capacity this year to try and alleviate the situation. The problem in the area was pointed out to the authorities by all the schools as far back as 2003, which was ample time to address the question.
Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin blames poor planning by the Department of Education and other State agencies for the crisis in school places in north and west Dublin.
The soil of my country is calling me. No dictator can now stop our way.
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who has booked himself on five different flights to the country next week to counter government efforts to thwart his return.
There's more than one way to skin the cat here, and I wouldn't say we're 100 per cent sure yet in how we're going to skin it, and I don't think you have to be.
Flexibility will be the watchword as Ireland set out to capture the 2007 rugby world cup, says coach Eddie O'Sullivan.
To help change Ireland for the better, Labour itself has to change.
New Labour leader Eamon Gilmore.
She is shocked and surprised in several ways. First of all that such an accusation could be made against her. And obviously she is concerned that such a line of investigation can become a distraction from further attempts to find Madeleine.
A spokeswoman for the McCann family amid reports that Portuguese police are to formally declare Kate McCann a suspect over the disappearance of her four-year-old daughter Madeleine.
We will not be able to have cancer treatment in almost every hospital in the country, which is the case at the moment.
Minister for Health Mary Harney says cancer treatment services must be centralised to ensure quality of care.
Imagine if al-Qaeda took over Gaza. Would anybody suggest we provide them with infrastructure?
Israeli vice-president Haim Ramon defends cutting off fuel, water and electricity to the Gaza Strip, where Islamic Hamas militants now hold power.