'Man, these Islamic guys want to cut my hands off. Maybe it's time for a change.' ABSHIR BOYAH, a Somali pirate boss, on mounting opposition to piracy among the country's religious leaders
'I'd have, like, seen this much ice and thought, Oh, my gosh, we were going to crash.' REBECCA SHAW, co-pilot of a plane that crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., in February, remarking on the wintry conditions in a cockpit recording before the fatal plunge
'We just wanted to gather and remember our babies.' ZHOU LIANGPING, of Juyuan, China, after local officials blocked memorials at the town's middle school marking the...