This was a last resort for someone who is trying to hold on to power and has reached a dead end. - Pakistani former army general Talat Massood amid reports that president Pervez Musharraf had considered declaring a state of emergency to quell protests against his government.
I spent the better part of the last three months enduring criticism normally levelled at a genocidal tyrant.
-Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation owner, on the public outcry over his purchase of the Wall Street Journal.
Even if there are a few left, we can't find them.
- Samuel Turvey, a conservation biologist, on the Yangtze River dolphin, which has been declared extinct.
They are bringing in outside bodies to chat to the clubs and try to stamp it out. If I can see they are trying to do that, I will definitely go back.
- Fermanagh GAA player Darren Graham, says he will return and line out for his club. Graham walked off a pitch recently after being subjected to sectarian taunts.
It's a historic moment.
- Boubacar Ould Messaoud, a human rights campaigner in Mauritania, as the country passes a law banning slavery.
It's a bittersweet day.
- Aer Lingus chief executive Dermot Mannion as the airline announces it will transfer its Heathrow slots from Shannon to Belfast.
This decision is disgraceful.
- Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea responds to the news.
The Cold War has come to the North.
- A headline in the Russian newspaper Kommersant as Moscow and Canada squabble over territorial rights in the resource-rich Arctic.
It is time that the international community responded with genuine solidarity and aid to displaced Iraqis and to the states housing them.
- Antonio Guterres, chief of the United Nations refugee agency, calls on the West to help house the four million Iraqis displaced by the war.
I am . . . offering to take Mr Jamous's place, to exchange my freedom for his.
- Actress Mia Farrow says she will swap places with Darfur rebel Suleiman Jamous. He has been imprisoned in a UN hospital for more than a year. The Sudanese government says it will arrest Jamous if he leaves the building.
He's a completely normal five-year-old yet he's completely obsessed with the game at the minute, he loves it.
- Mark Quinn of the Irish Chess Union on five-year-old chess "prodigy" Shane Melaugh from Donegal, who has represented Ireland at under-12 level.
Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him.
- Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Alison Russell after a man smuggled a monkey on to an aircraft en route to New York, hiding the animal under his hat until passengers spotted it perched on his ponytail.
I definitely know he cannot be in Afghanistan.
- Afghan president Hamid Karzai is asked about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
It's not something macho police officers want covering their biceps.
- Pongpat Chayaphan, of the Bangkok Police Department, which has announced officers must wear bright armbands featuring "Hello Kitty" as a mark of shame if they violate department rules.
It is confirmed that there were vestiges of blood found in the apartment occupied by the McCanns.
- Diario de Noticias, a Portuguese newspaper, quotes unnamed police sources who believe four-year-old Madeleine McCann was murdered. She disappeared three months ago from a Portuguese resort.
Folk music was a response to the horror that was going on all around us and Tommy's calm voice helped to bring people back to their senses.
- Mary Lewis pays tribute to the Vietnam War-era role of her friend, the late Tommy Makem.