1.   We were enjoying a normal breakfast when my wife shattered the morning calm.

2.   A volley of rockets launched by Taliban rebels shattered the early morning calm in the Afghan capital Wednesday, wounding at least four people, one seriously.

3.   It turned out to be a lone hiker from the area enjoying the morning calm, police said.

4.   Machine-gun and semiautomatic fire shattered the morning calm.

5.   Shooting shattered the early morning calm in the Kinsoundi district of the city but the gunfire was short-lived and isolated.

6.   The morning calm on a tree-lined residential street is pierced as sign-carrying protesters shout at women entering an abortion clinic.

7.   The seas were near calm this morning.

8.   Blasts were heard in the capital as several rockets and mortars were fired, shattering the morning calm as residents prepared for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year.