111.   The shooting was reported just hours after the government offered amnesty to those surrendering illegal firearms.

112.   The two leading television networks broadcast documentaries on dissidents and the underground church in China just days after the handover.

113.   Vandenbroucke announced his resignation just hours after insisting he would not quit over the latest allegations that his Socialist Party was linked to clandestine deals.

114.   Without citing a source, the newspaper said he had flown to Guam just hours after a flight from Hong Kong.

115.   Guerrillas fired Katyusha rockets into northern Israel on Friday just hours after an Israeli helicopter attack which killed a Hezbollah leader, state radio reported.

116.   He was visiting the town just hours after several Hezbollah rockets slammed into it, wounding five persons and sparking retaliatory artillery fire against southern Lebanon.

117.   In a further embarrassment, three inmates escaped from a jail in Cambridgeshire just hours after the Parkhurst three were captured.

118.   Alan Stubbs and Niclas Alexandersson added two more for the Toffees before Branko Strupar pulled one back for shellshocked Derby just seconds after coming on as a substitute.

119.   And NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue handed over the Vince Lombardi trophy to team owner Jerry Jones, just hours after blasting his management style national television.

120.   Farmers in the Jalalabad region in eastern Afghanistan have resumed growing poppy and processing opium just days after the ouster of the fundamentalist Taliban regime.