Maybe we direct people with smartphone cameras to breaking news events like gamers are flocking to animated creatures.

With China's economy booming, foreign investors flocking, and the country's role in global markets ever more central, the disappearance of this elderly couple hardly caused a break in China's hectic march.

Denied their Iraqi and Afghan bases by Western intervention, al Qaeda militants are now flocking into Syria from Libya and Iraq, and are probably responsible for some of the recent terrorist atrocities in Aleppo and Homs.

Voters, indeed, increasingly see through such cynical toying with ethnic and religious divisions, for it is clear that prompt arrest and prosecution of those who instigated the Godhra incident would have brought independent voters flocking to the BJP. The party has squandered that opportunity.

From the start, most Russian sympathies have tended to be with the protesters, a phenomenon the controversial writer and head of the Other Russia opposition group Eduard Limonov ascribed to the Russian national character We Russian citizens always hope that those rising up against their governments will win, instinctively flocking to their side.

The US Mexican economic relationship may be the world s most important example of how rich and poor economies can be harmonized for mutual benefit. Under NAFTA, US firms are flocking across the 2,000 mile Mexican border in order to set up operations in Mexico to benefit from lower wage levels, and hence lower production costs.

Denied their Iraqi and Afghan bases by Western intervention, al Qaeda militants are now flocking into Syria from Libya and Iraq, and are probably responsible for some of the recent terrorist atrocities in Aleppo and Homs. Al Qaeda s move to the Levant also threatens to spark a momentous confrontation between Sunni radicals some of whom have recently taken control of part of the Syrian Lebanese border and the Shia Hezbollah in Lebanon.