Amnesty International highlights an "alarming" rise in the use of the death penalty in Iraq - with almost double the number of executions last year compared to 2011, up from 68 to at least 129.
It had run a campaign calling for the Welsh government to provide free sunscreen to young children in a bid to stop an "alarming" rise in skin cancer in Wales.
Data from the 2011 survey is still being analyzed, but the results indicate how extensive the issue has become, with more students borrowing and an "alarming" rise in debt levels, Miller said.
A report by an oversight group evaluating Illinois' largest maximum-security prison found an "alarming" rise in staff and inmate assaults, likely a product of too many inmates and too few guards.
The din of alarm rising in the East has hardly been heard in the West, however, where Russia has pursued an effective policy of divide and conquer.
But the deal did not appear likely to quiet the chorus of alarms rising from the political establishment, including both officials of the Mubarak government and the liberals it tolerated.
Even though an unusually high proportion of Italy's treasury bonds and bills are in the hands of Italians, foreigners still hold around €700 billion-worth of the things.With alarm rising, José Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission, issued a statement urging national leaders to get a grip.
— As rain lashed Merion Golf Club last Monday, alarm rose with the water.
The three areas where rates of malicious fire alarms rose fastest, when measured on a per capita basis, were Hertfordshire, Gloucester and Hereford and Worcester.
Pete Paphides On 21 August 1997, I switched off my alarm, rose, and headed out to What Records in Hinckley, Leicestershire, to queue to be among the first to buy Oasis's third album, Be Here Now.
