31.   A top Chinese legislative official was killed fighting off a burglar, official media reported Saturday.

32.   A senior Communist Party official was killed in a robbery in Beijing, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.

33.   A Ugandan Wildlife Authority official was also killed in the attack.

34.   A village official was killed by a car bomb in southern Bulgaria, but police refused to speculate Wednesday whether the murder was politically motivated.

35.   Also Wednesday, three Palestinian security officials were killed when their convoy of unmarked cars came under Israeli attack near Tamoun, witnesses said.

36.   An insurance company official was killed Thursday when a bomb exploded in an elevator in the Black Sea town of Varna.

37.   Armed assailants opened fire on a United Nations relief convoy in southern Sudan, killing three officials and wounding four others, the official Sudanese News Agency reported Wednesday.

38.   Armed assailants opened fire at a United Nations relief convoy in southern Sudan, killing three officials and wounding four others, the official Sudanese News Agency reported Wednesday.

39.   At least three business officials have been killed in suspected sokaiya attacks in the last decade.

40.   At those meetings, the plan was hatched for marchers to storm the high-rise headquarters and kill ANC officials, the Sunday Times reported.