• Many people believe police in Port Said stood by in revenge for the fans' role in anti-Mubarak unrest.

    BBC: Egypt court backs Port Said football riot death sentences

  • Two years later, to the very day, a bomb planted in revenge for Waco in Oklahoma City killed 169 people.

    ECONOMIST: The pawns of Fidel

  • The prosecution said Ms Pryce passed the story about his speeding offence to the press in revenge for his extra-marital affair.

    BBC: Vicky Pryce 'bullied' into points swap, defence says

  • Their families have been threatened, their family members abducted, raped, even assassinated, in revenge for the work that they have done.

    FORBES: America's Disgrace. (It's Bigger Than The Debt.)

  • They killed 11 fans and the captain of the Tipperary team in revenge for the IRA's murder of 14 British spies.

    BBC: Irish history goes to highest bidder

  • The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said it fired the rocket in revenge for the death of the detainee, who belonged to the group.

    BBC: Gaza rocket lands near Ashkelon in southern Israel

  • In revenge for the recognition of Kosovo's independence earlier this year, Mr Putin established legal ties with the governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

    ECONOMIST: Russia and Georgia

  • Police had launched the manhunt for Dorner after he killed three people, apparently in revenge for being fired from the LA police in 2008.

    BBC: US fugitive Christopher Dorner died from single gunshot

  • The government blames a long-running drought, and Mr Mugabe has accused Britain and its allies of sabotaging the economy in revenge for the redistribution programme.

    BBC: Zimbabwe profile

  • Investigations into the case began after 11 French engineers were killed in a Karachi bombing in 2002, amid allegations the attack was in revenge for unpaid bribes.

    BBC: Nicolas Sarkozy's best man Nicolas Bazire charged

  • Ansaru, a suspected off-shoot of the Boko Haram network, said it had carried out the attack in revenge for what it called atrocities by European nations against Islam.

    BBC: Brendan Vaughan

  • Ansaru, a suspected offshoot of the Boko Haram network, said it had carried out the attack in revenge for what it called atrocities by European nations against Islam.

    BBC: Nigeria: Video appears to show dead hostages

  • Two weeks ago, in neighbouring Algeria, militants took over a gas plant, taking hundreds of people hostage and claiming they were acting in revenge for events in Mali.

    BBC: Tripoli skyline

  • The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the BBC the attack had been in revenge for the killing of 11 civilians by government forces earlier in the day.

    BBC: Russia accuses West of 'immoral' stance on Syria

  • Rehavam Zeevi , Israel's far-right minister of tourism, was assassinated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in revenge for the earlier killing of the group's leader.

    ECONOMIST: Politics this week | The

  • Muslims were targeted by Hindu rioters in revenge for an attack on a train carrying Hindu activists back from the town of Ayodhya, the focus of a dispute over plans to build a temple.

    BBC: Boost for India anti-terror bill

  • It also suits Hamas, a militant Islamist group, which has long championed resistance over negotiations, and whose stock has risen with the fearsome attacks it has carried out in revenge for Israel's assassination of its military leader, Salah Shehada, together with 14 other Palestinians, in Gaza last month.

    ECONOMIST: Doomed diplomacy? | The

  • For his part, Mr Blair wants to see both sides take a series of steps to curb the violence which has escalated dangerously in the two weeks since a radical Palestinian group assassinated an Israeli cabinet minister on 17 October in revenge for the Israeli killing of their leader earlier in the year.

    BBC: Sharon and Blair

  • But the sight of politicians using the Sikh religion for political ends brings uncomfortable reminders of the events that led to Bhindranwale's emergence from obscurity and to a period of violence that claimed some 35, 000 lives including that of Mrs Gandhi, killed by her Sikh guards, seemingly in revenge for the attack on the Golden Temple.

    ECONOMIST: A martyr is declared in Punjab

  • Mr Bush's career in particular often seems to have been a tightly disciplined exercise in exacting revenge for slights to his father.

    ECONOMIST: A curse on both their houses

  • But, if they can start by beating Wigan in Cardiff on Saturday night and wreaking revenge for that most painful of defeats in October, they may have a chance of becoming champions for the first time since 2006.

    BBC: St Helens season preview 2011

  • Now, as the British army gets more involved with fighting the Taliban, it wants to abandon its leadership of the international force (in which its troops could be an easy target for revenge) in favour of Turkey, which has reluctantly, and provisionally, accepted the role.

    ECONOMIST: At last, signs of hope

  • The Dragons have called up Will Bragg into a 14-man squad to face Kent as they bid for revenge in the wake of last Sunday's defeat.

    BBC: Glamorgan boss Matthew Maynard targets new all-rounder

  • The 25-year-old Swede gained revenge for defeat in last year's final with a 3-6 6-3 7-5 6-4 win that ends Federer's incredible run of 23 consecutive Grand Slam semi-finals.

    BBC: Robin Soderling stuns Roger Federer at French Open

  • The Knicks are not expected to give much of a challenge to the Heat, a still-imperfect club that was tormented by last season's Finals failure and is eager for revenge in this lockout-shortened year.

    WSJ: The Team the Knicks Were Supposed to Be

  • In his bid for vindication--or revenge--Greenberg is buoyed by the fact that in his last eight years running AIG it averaged a 15% annual return on equity, putting it well ahead of competitors like CNA, Chubb and Travelers, while since his defrocking it has managed only a middle-of-the-pack 13.6%.

    FORBES: Is It Vindication or Is It Revenge?

  • Saracens can now look forward to a Heineken Cup semi-final against Munster at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry after a victory which will be sweet revenge for the 30-3 defeat they suffered at the hands of the Ospreys in the EDF Energy Cup last month.

    BBC: Saracens 19-10 Ospreys

  • If Sony does win out over Toshiba, it will be sweet revenge for its defeat in previous standards wars.

    ECONOMIST: Standards wars

  • On Monday, that couldn't be avoided, but Israeli officials sought to play down speculation that Iran was engaging in tit-for-tat revenge.

    WSJ: Israel Says Iran Behind Attacks on Diplomats

  • It also gave United revenge for the defeat in the Stadium of Light that sent them out of last season's Champions League.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | Europe | Ferguson hails 'magnificent' Saha

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