Perspectives.(quotes from around the world)

"Bodies are just coming from out of the sky." An unnamed man in an emergency call from the World Trade Center on 9/11, in new transcripts released last week

"There is no order! There is no government!" Shatha Saleh, an Iraqi woman who had been praying in the mosque in Najaf, after a bomb exploded outside, killing at least 85 and wounding more than 140

"You want to know whether we were all so frightened that we had to go back to Tokyo to hide behind our beds? The answer is no." A Japanese official, downplaying North Korea's threat, made during last week's talks in Beijing, that it would conduct nuclear testing

"There were legs and hands lying on top and inside my taxi." Mumbai cabdriver Lal Sahib Singh, who was driving past a bullion market on Aug. 25 when a car bomb exploded, one of two that together killed 46 people in the Indian city

"Campbell is the spider which weaved the web of spin which kept Tony Blair intact." Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond, commenting on the resignation of Blair's communications chief, Alastair Campbell, who was at the center of allegations that the British ...