خط Gentium Basic

Security forces have responded to the protesters in Iraq using water cannon, tear gas, live rounds and rubber bullets. Scores of protesters have been killed and thousands wounded.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with other, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Yet without the jet plane to carry passengers over vast distances at high speed, be they businessmen, holidaymakers, politicians or even whole armies, the world in which we now live would be a very different place.