1.   Sitting in front of his one-room, mud brick home in Corral, Duarte says he refused their overtures.

2.   The sun was setting on this ancient oasis in the Sahara the other day, as the villagers trudged across the sand toward their mud homes.

3.   Then, several dozen soldiers gathered here on top of mud brick homes and gleefully watched bombs fall on Kabul.

4.   There was no money for fuel to heat their mud homes.

5.   People were perched everywhere, in trees and on the rooftops of mud homes on a nearby hill.

6.   At the Pakistani missile test site, residents set up chairs and cots atop their sun-baked mud homes to watch the launch, eyewitnesses said.

7.   In Akhundzada, a poor village of sun-baked mud homes overlooking Hadda, residents barked at strangers searching for the Buddhist ruins.

8.   Individual families have their own sunbaked mud homes, but share the courtyard, usually surrounded by high walls.

9.   It was not immediately known why the roof collapsed, construction of mud homes is flimsy.

10.   Janghal Bagh, a small village of sun-baked mud homes, was deserted and several homes hit by incoming rockets were on fire.