Flights extra While the situation in East Timor is relatively calm compared with recent periods of political strife, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still advises against "all but essential travel" to the region.
Some people thrive on strife and stress, while others prefer total tedium.
The Observer has learned that the leader of the gang is a highly-paid British agent who joined the Loyalist Volunteer Force to foment sectarian strife in his native north Belfast during the 1990s.
It boomed after the birth of mass motoring, then crashed in spectacular style thanks to industrial strife in the 70s before being salvaged by foreign owners picking through the wreckage.
Artigas, leader of the Banda Oriental, struggled for independence from Argentina and succeeded in 1825, but civil strife continued until the early 20th century.
Perhaps people who care for literature and art for their own sakes will regret that they should be degraded by connection with the strife of parties.
Among the geopolitical strife and outrageous offerings from contestants such as Conchita Wurst – the cross dressing drag queen representing Austria – it could be a struggle for the UK's entrant, Molly Smitten-Downes, to stand out from the crowd.
But, in a hint of the strife to come, he said that he still wanted to raised tax rises for the wealthy, which Republicans oppose.
"We have in many countries a generation that cannot remember civil strife in their lifetime, are well educated, speak English, understand the west.
Al-Qaida and its sympathisers may yet prevail in the country-wide Hobbesian strife, or Yemen may dissolve into anarchy, like nearby Somalia.
He was respected as much by his opponents as by adversaries within his own party and, at times of strife, by the warring factors within the mining industry, which he was proud to call his own.
