11.   The soldiers feared that the gunmen had taken hostages in at least one of the houses, but when the shooting stopped it appeared they had not.

12.   Witnesses to the slaughter in the restaurant say the gunman took aim, fired and calmly walked away.

13.   Witnesses said she was shot when she stepped in front of a sixth-grader as the gunman took aim at the student.

14.   Others, though, felt only foreboding as Israeli helicopter gunships juddered overhead and Palestinian gunmen took up sniper posts in nearby buildings.

15.   Palestinian gunmen also took part in the shootings.

16.   Palestinian gunmen took up positions and fired back, the witnesses said.

17.   Palestinian gunmen took up positions and started firing back, the witnesses said.

18.   A gunman has taken as many as eight people hostage in an office block in a Melbourne suburb, police said Thursday.

19.   A gunman has taken as many as eight people hostage in an office block in a Melbourne suburb, police said Wednesday.

20.   A gas station attendant was slapped in the face as the gunmen took money from a cash register.