1.   But Ertl stumbled on the second run, ripping a flag off a pole, and finished sixth overall.

2.   Police detained one of the demonstrators when he ripped a Chinese flag.

3.   Syrian demonstrators ripped the flag from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus and burned it.

4.   That flag is ripped and still smells of smoke.

5.   To a few cheers, one man ripped the flag off a tree while another held a cigarette lighter to it.

6.   They chased after a Jewish boy who ripped a flag off a car belonging to international observers.

7.   When the match ended shortly after dawn, several hundred moved to the U.S. Embassy, ripped its flag and shouted obscenities.

8.   Japanese maritime police immediately ripped the flags down, television reports said.

9.   The protesters managed to get back to their boats though the flags were ripped down by Japanese forces, the reports added.