21.   Earlier in the day, an air-raid siren sounded throughout the country for two minutes, bringing the nation to a halt to remember its war victims.

22.   Police in Vietnam confiscated stocks of firecrackers, but they sounded throughout Hanoi after night fell, before a ban on them took effect at midnight.

23.   Sniper fire sounded throughout the informal truce and it broke down completely after four hours when salvos of Russian artillery slammed into the city center.

24.   The agency said all clear sounded throughout Serbia.

25.   The clank of metal pipes and the steady hum of electric generators sound throughout the night.

26.   A general alert was immediately sounded throughout the city, over the radio and loud-speakers.