1.   Gradually the pale patches of fresh plaster spread across the blackened walls.

2.   Only blackened walls and charred rubble remained of the White House.

3.   A caricature showing Bosnian Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman carving up Bosnia adorned a blackened wall of the Serb-held apartment.

4.   A gaping hole was torn in the blackened exterior wall of his compound, which was speckled by bullet pockmarks.

5.   A gaping hole was torn in the blackened exterior wall, marked by bullet tracks.

6.   A gaping hole was torn in the blackened exterior wall of his compound, which was marked by bullet tracks.

7.   A gaping hole was torn in the blackened exterior wall of his compound, which was spattered with bullet pockmarks.

8.   A gaping hole was torn in the blackened exterior wall of the compound, which was marked by bullet tracks.

9.   In Jakarta, Indonesia, hundreds of Protestant worshippers prayed and sang hymns within the blackened walls of a church gutted by fire in a riot,

10.   In the daily Maariv, a front-page photo showed blackened walls and peeling plaster from a fire inside a Jaffa synagogue.