This is what the presidents do when they get together; it's a nice break from the day-to-day catastrophe that is American politics.
Fans fearing a last-day catastrophe had endured a week of imagining worst-case scenarios, but the uncertainty lasted for only the 16 minutes in which Coventry put up a serious struggle and might have taken the lead.
The Singapore incident was small compared with the 87-day catastrophe bubbling away in the gulf, and the Singapore authorities, responding with characteristic efficiency, mopped up the mess with booms and chemical dispersants in just six days.
The annual "day of catastrophe" marked by Palestinians on the anniversary of Israel's declaration of independence on May 14 , 1948
I was relieved to see him and to share the day's catastrophe -- and he was happy to find us standing on the sidewalk.
And to complicate things further, Palestinians observe the day of catastrophe on May 15, the first day of the new state's existence rather than May 14, the day independence was declared.
"It's hard to view Monday's catastrophe as an accident".
We can, if we choose, see a face behind Tuesday's catastrophe.
"This will be of no comfort to the families impacted by Friday's catastrophe, but we need these reforms to our civil justice system in Scotland and we need them now".
