1.   Several Palestinian bomb-builders, members of Hamas, managed to blow themselves up in their Gaza hideout when the explosives they were assembling went off prematurely.

2.   When the explosives go off they squeeze the plutonium together into a critical mass, which allows a nuclear explosion.

3.   Police spokesman Eric Bar Chen said the bomber was apparently standing at a phone booth adjacent to the bus stop when the explosives went off.

4.   Police said the bomber was apparently at a phone booth next to the stop when his explosives went off.

5.   A city official was seriously injured on Monday when an explosive attached to his car went off, police said.

6.   A low-grade homemade explosive went off Sunday in a parking lot in eastern Corsica, damaging the car of a government employee but causing no injuries, police said.

7.   An explosive went off near an army patrol in the Gaza Strip late Monday but no injuries were reported, the army said.

8.   Another three soldiers were killed when explosives loaded in their truck went off in northern Sri Lanka, military officials said.

9.   Another Palestinian man died when explosives he had went off prematurely as he walked toward a road junction outside the West Bank town of Jenin, the military said.

10.   Four people were injured, at least one of them seriously, when an unknown explosive went off in north Moravia early Monday, the news agency CTK reported.