BELGRADE, Serbia — Demonstrators attacked the United States Embassy and set part of it ablaze on Thursday as tens of thousands of angry Serbs took to the streets of Belgrade to protest Kosovo's declaration of independence.
An Israeli helicopter quickly responded, tracking down a sedan that was carrying the attackers and firing a rocket that set it ablaze on the streets of Jabaliya, just north of Gaza City.
The avalanche of anonymous and unaccountable campaign cash that is currently marinating our nation's politics this election cycle can be likened to the tactics of "Sam Bacile," the pseudonym for the producer of the film "The Innocence of Muslims" that set ablaze parts of the Islamic world.
But Washington can also see the danger of becoming more deeply enmeshed in the Arab-Kurdish conflict, which kept northern Iraq ablaze for much of the last century.
In 2011, a dozen Tibetans set themselves ablaze — most of them monks or former monks of Kirti Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Sichuan.
The pension legislation, however, was merely the spark that set ablaze decades of teacher frustration over education funding and the treatment of Kentucky's public schools.
New Year's Eve has long been tarnished by the practice, as unruly urban youth set ablaze hundreds of cars and motorcycles to usher in the new year.
William Bligh adrift, and set their ship ablaze, 8 of them, along with 6 Polynesian men, 12 Polynesian women and a small girl, landed on Pitcairn.
Just hours before today's ceremony another house was ablaze, that of an old Muslim woman who had been planning to return home in two weeks.
Just when a city and region was returning to what passes these days as normality, bang: hundreds more dead, the Rockaways ablaze, tons of debris falling from the heavens, and a community in panic.
