The word "bomb" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to an explosive device, such as a firework, an improvised explosive device, or a nuclear device. For example: "The terrorist set off a bomb in the crowded market."
Leigh Daynes, executive director of Doctors of the World UK, said: "The failure to ensure equitable access to healthcare across Europe is this century's hidden public health time bomb.
Then came the second world war and the horrors of the nuclear bomb.
Downey, from County Donegal, had been charged with the murders of four soldiers who died in the Hyde Park bomb in 1982, after his arrest at Gatwick airport last year.
Zarqawi was killed by an American bomb in 2006.
On top of his wife battling cancer, Gerry Adams now faces serious accusations from a former comrade over the McConville killing as well as claims that he played a major role in Bloody Friday, a series of bomb blasts across Belfast in July 1972 that left nine dead and dozens injured.
While Crawley has a proportionately much smaller Muslim population than others on the list, the West Sussex town was in the spotlight last year as the home of the first British jihadi suicide bomber of the Syrian civil war, and of three men jailed in 2007 for a bomb plot investigated by police under Operation Crevice.
This was standing next to a nuclear bomb and not knowing how to dismantle it.
While we bomb Isis, Assad spares it and prefers to barrel-bomb Syrian civilians in the pockets of territory still controlled by the rebels fighting his rule.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 3.58pm BST15:58 More on Damascus bombing Reuters has more detail on today's bomb attack in Damascus.
The reason they have dropped so far is a planned parade to commemorate two IRA men who blew themselves up transporting a bomb into the town almost 40 years ago.
The attack follows twin bomb blasts early on Friday in Tashan Alade, a remote Borno town, which killed at least seven people.
