31.   The five pickpockets, some of whom wielded knives, escaped, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said.

32.   Then, a teen-ager wielding a knife attacked a policeman in a Tokyo street and tried to take his gun.

33.   When they arrived, they found a young man on the back deck of the house holding a child in his arms while wielding a knife.

34.   Witnesses said there were three hijackers in all and that they wielded knives and claimed to have a bomb.

35.   Details were sketchy but Secret Service officials told CNN a US park policeman fired two shots at a man wielding a knife.

36.   Usually in Italy the knife is not wielded until a successor has already been found but Lecce clearly felt that action was needed sooner rather than later.

37.   On Sunday attackers wielding knives killed Israeli tourist Raam Bensholmo and wounded his girlfriend at the Boracay beach resort in central Philippines.