'Suddenly the reality hit me'
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Arts & entertainment: How does it feel to watch your father's life and death re-enacted on film? Natalie Curtis, daughter of Joy Division singer, Ian Curtis, finds out.
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What do you do when you see a huge wave-wall coming at you? You run. Your run as fast as you can. You think: &quot;This is surreal.
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Fear has won. My head is swooning and my fingernails are dug in. I'm sitting on a rock face just flat enough to keep me from sliding off into the oblivion I'm trying not to look at below.
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'But it seems as though it is a step that may have come too soon.'
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Susan Lampert Smith Wisconsin State Journal With so many large tragedies going on in the world, it&#39;s easier to comprehend the small sadness of change.
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Reader Sunaina Yadav shares her experiences.
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There are moments in history when the potential for seismic shifts is so great that it&#39;s palpable. Yasser Arafat&#39;s death has created one of them.
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A surprise move by central banks to inject huge amounts of cash into money markets has had an immediate effect.
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Comment is free: Andrew Rawnsley: The most testing times for leaders come from the shock events they never anticipated.
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Tim Wakefield put it behind him a long, long time ago. It was never healthy to dwell on something so upsetting and so devastating. If you let negative experiences define you, then moving forward is practically impossible.
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Tim Hudson pretty much knew it was coming, but he had no idea how it would actually feel when it did. Now, of course, he does. And after taking a call late Thursday afternoon
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The superstar springs a surprise.
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WITHIN seconds, unexpected devastation swept through Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, Indonesia, and Thailand changing the lives of millions.
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I was hungry and it had started to rain when my mobile phone buzzed to tell me I could now buy sugar in a hermetically sealed packet. A picture on my phone's screen of a goldfish swimming past the cheery new packaging drove the point home.
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Reader Sateesh Pasikanti could not believe his luck.
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âPlease help me. Please help me,â said a terrified Hassan, breaking down in tears and burying her face in a tissue. She said she might be killed like British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was beheaded by his captors earlier this month.
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The unexpected  has almost become   the expected for Abhishek Bachchan