An American couple cleared by a Qatari appeals court of wrongdoing in the death of their eight-year-old adopted daughter but blocked from leaving the country held out hope on Monday that they would soon be allowed to leave the tiny Gulf nation, as a family representative blasted a continued travel ban against them as "institutional kidnapping".
This is a blasted, haunted landscape, populated by demonic child soldiers and a shadowy guerrilla army that slaughters in the bush or under the cover of night.
Ronaldo had blasted a fifth-minute free-kick into the wall but, with Toni Kroos and Isco to the fore, the defending champions began to manipulate the ball with purpose.
■ Every 30m or so along the horizontal wells, water, sand and a lubricant called polyacrylamide will be blasted in at high pressure to fracture the shale and release the gas it contains.
Greece's government has blasted its creditors for holding back progress on bailout talks, laying the blame squarely on differences between the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Stopping on a blasted heath, an earnest gentleman (Ioan Gruffudd) stops two carriage drivers who are beating a black horse.
Peter Mandelson has blasted Labour for failing to have a strategy for decentralising power from London to northern England.
In the final scene, the monster is blasted into space by the only survivor, Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver.
They're not even a photocopy of the Cowell blueprint any more; they're a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy; any trace of nuance and humanity has gradually been blasted away until nothing's left but spite for spite's sake.
They then blasted on to a winning total thanks to a fifth-wicket stand of 175 between Root and Buttler, the highest for any England wicket in an ODI in the region.
In the shadow of a teaching hospital whose windows had been blasted out, diggers began moving sheets of metal, rubble and singed clothes from the streets.
