Lest we mistakenly believe that the fire is the work of an impartial universe, one scene shows a demented arsonist pouring gasoline on the bed of a sleeping woman before setting it on fire.
Goranov died on 3 March of his injuries, after apparently setting himself on fire outside the mayor's office in Varna.
Also repeating a theme Romney touched on earlier, Obama made reference to the Tunisian street vendor credited for starting the Arab Spring by setting himself on fire.
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Even then, only dramatic cases such as girls setting themselves on fire are generally recorded.
Two Tibetan teenagers have died after setting themselves on fire in Sichuan province, activists and US media said.
The Arabic news network al-Jazeera said a gang stormed its Cairo offices, setting them on fire and damaging equipment.
Two years ago a man in his 60s has died after setting himself on fire in Samitah in Saudi Arabia's south-western Jizan region.
Self-immolation has since become more common in the Arab world, with people setting themselves on fire in Tunisia, Jordan, Bahrain and Morocco.
Rumours abound in the local media of women setting themselves on fire because they do not know how to use gas properly.
Seven months after setting himself on fire, Polyzonis says more and more Greeks find themselves close to the desperate condition he was in last September.
The two were at a protest April 7, when families demanding the government's help began throwing Molotov cocktails and setting tires on fire, Buck said.
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Sure lithium-ion batteries have a habit of setting themselves on fire.
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The next day, tensions rose as family and friends of protesters who had been detained took to the streets, eventually throwing Molotov cocktails and setting tires on fire, he said.
Instead of handing them to the police, the residents lynched the criminals in front of the local police station by spraying them with gasoline and then setting them on fire.
Maung Maung, advocate-general of the town, said police detained 34 people, including a Muslim man who sparked the violence by allegedly dousing a Buddhist woman with gasoline and setting her on fire.
Ms Shand told the court that Zoe had been lying there with a sheet of plastic over her face and only a murderer would take the dreadful step of setting her on fire.
Witnesses say Mr Khedhri shouted: "This is a young man who sells cigarettes because of unemployment, " before setting himself on fire on the steps of the municipal theatre on Habib Bourguiba Avenue, on Tuesday.
The latest attack came Friday, when a man armed with a hammer injured five preschool children in east China before setting himself on fire in a classroom suicide, a government spokesman told Xinhua news agency.
They were firing off missiles, and also we're told a mortar platoon from further back in the rear was firing off 8-millimeter mortars, and those impacted in a number of buildings behind us, setting them on fire and sending plumes of black smoke into the air.
But in this case, it's actually pretty apt: The group combines the messier impulses of punk, psychedelia, '60s rock and '90s Britpop, complete with a carefully cultivated reputation for unruliness which includes (but has not been limited to) urinating on each other, vomiting onstage and setting their instruments on fire.
While a chunky frame, cellular data in only some models and a misplaced emphasis on tablet-like software kept the Streak from setting the world on fire, it would prove to be prophetic.
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Michelle Phillips, a member of the Mamas and the Papas, remembers how Hendrix amazed the crowd and fellow artists with his jaw-dropping performance, playing his guitar on his back, behind his back, lying down and setting the instrument on fire.
Yet few of the recent Internet and social-media IPOs are setting the market on fire.
Since they could achieve the same thing by setting their building on fire, why go about it this way?
Twenty years ago, a large technology firm was setting the world on fire.
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We heard mortar rounds landing nearby, exploding and setting neighboring buildings on fire.
Last month, a car bomb hit the French Embassy in Tripoli, wounding three people and partially setting the building on fire.
In Mahalla, petrol bombs were thrown at the Islamist office, setting the building on fire, the state-run Mena news agency reported.
Many fans celebrated peacefully, but others vandalized their beloved town by setting a bus on fire, flipping over cars, and lighting bonfires fueled by couches.
After Michael Marin was convicted yesterday of setting his mansion on fire he apparently took his own in life in the courtroom by swallowing a poison pill.
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