1.   A car was bombing down the highway.

2.   A Palestinian pathologist, Jalal Jabara, said Sharif was shot twice in the chest and once in a leg about three hours before the car bomb explosion.

3.   Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs had their second meeting under U.S. auspices, but a car bombing, gunfire attacks and funerals overshadowed sputtering truce efforts.

4.   Meanwhile, police stepped up security in Israeli cities in the wake of what they said was a failed car bombing on Sunday in Jerusalem.

5.   Russian officials on Saturday revised the death toll in a southern Russian car bombing, saying two people, not three, died in the Friday attack.

6.   The car bombing, the first ever in the kingdom, killed five Americans and two Indians.

7.   French officials were particularly concerned about the safety of schoolchildren after the Lyon car bomb, which went off if the suburb of Villeurbanne.

8.   Argentine justice officials have ordered the arrest of four Iranian diplomats formerly stationed in Buenos Aires and suspected of involvement in the car bombing, officials said Tuesday.

9.   Washington has condemned the car bombing and announced the closure of the US embassy and American Center in Islamabad, as well as the consulates in Lahore and Peshawar.

10.   The car bombing in Oklahoma City, exposing US vulnerability to terrorism, has raised a chorus of calls for tougher anti-terrorism laws and more stringent restrictions on immigration.