As that drone floated surreally over the Belgrade pitch on 14 October, sparking the extraordinary mayhem that followed on the pitch, it was just the latest incident to make that stance look naive at best and dangerous at worst.
Moments later, his team-mate Alessio Cerci struck the winner, sparking such bedlam at the Stadio Olimpico that the team's goalkeeping coach, Beppe Zinetti, wound up tearing an Achilles tendon.
The shooting is being investigated by a group of 15 officers from neighbouring police forces, sparking criticisms of a lack of impartiality.
"The focus that Iran must have is that it faces the prospect if it pursues nuclear weapons of sparking an arms race in the region.
A Russian state television reporter dropped a lit cigarette butt at the scene of raging wildfires in Siberia, sparking a fire in grass a few metres from a village, his channel has confirmed.
Somalia suffered its first outbreak of polio in six years in May 2013, starting with a two-year-old girl in Mogadishu and sparking a nationwide vaccination campaign by the Somali authorities supported by the World Health Organisation and Unicef, the UN children's agency.
While the prime minister has said the UN was right to condemn a bombing near a third school, he has otherwise only called for an immediate ceasefire, while taking care to blame Hamas for sparking the conflict.
Six demonstrators were killed, sparking an opposition movement against Akayev.
