Voting was generally peaceful, except for a small grenade explosion in the capital, Phnom Penh.
The sound I heard was the explosion from a small grenade targeting the owner of a cable-TV service.
His DNA was found on the remnants of a small grenade that was thrown into the kosher market in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris, last month.
Since Kenya's invasion of neighbouring Somalia two years ago there has been a wave of small grenade attacks blamed on Somalis living in Kenya.
All they could do for me was put fresh bandages on my right thigh and my left shoulder, in which — it was now official, confirmed by a signed and stamped document — a small grenade splinter had lodged.
"There has been a spate of small-scale grenade, bomb and armed attacks in Nairobi (especially the area of Eastleigh), Mombasa, and North Eastern Province.
The Israeli use of U.S.-made cluster bombs, which explode mid-air, unleashing many smaller grenade-size explosives, was particularly lethal among children.
As for the art, there's no muss, no fuss, no frills, no airs, just these amazing stoppered things, ambitiously perfect, as small as grenades.
Lighting forest fires to frustrate US reconnaissance planes, the Chinese surrounded the Americans and pressed in, attacking with small arms, grenades and even bayonets.
"Crutzen, who is not a geologist, but one of the modern great scientists, essentially launched a small hand grenade into the world of geological time scales," Jan Zalasiewicz, chair of the ICS's anthropocene working group, told the Guardian.
