51.   An explosion tore through a fertilizer plant near here Tuesday, killing at least four people and rupturing huge ammonia tanks, officials said.

52.   An explosion tore through a house here Tuesday, killing two teen-age girls and a man who was holding them hostage with a gasoline can, authorities said.

53.   An explosion tore through a fertilizer plant near here Tuesday, killing at least three people and rupturing huge ammonia tanks, officials said.

54.   Two huge explosions tore through an ammunitions stockpile at the Presidential palace in central Kabul, hurling ammunition, rubble and glass across the city centre.

55.   The explosion tore apart the second carriage of the train between the Saint Michel and Orsay Museum stations on the Left Bank in the heart of the city.