1.   Monday, four Western journalists were missing and feared dead in brazen daylight banditry on the road between the eastern city of Jalalabad and the Pakistani border.

2.   Alarmed by brazen daylight bank robberies, gunfights and serial murders, Chinese authorities have launched their biggest crackdown on crime in more than a decade.

3.   Green stalks lie trampled in the head-high sugar cane where gunmen raped five American college students after waylaying their bus in a brazen daylight attack.

4.   Iqbal Raad was shot and killed Friday in a brazen daylight attack by three gunmen who stormed his legal office in the heart of Karachi and opened fire.

5.   Ten days after the subway attack, the head of the national police was gunned down in front of his home in a brazen daylight attack.

6.   Takaji Kunimatsu was severely wounded in the brazen daylight attack outside his condominium but is recovering in a hospital.

7.   The head of the national police was shot and seriously wounded in a brazen daylight attack.