1.   Sharon died when Islamic militants opened fire on the tourist bus she was travelling on south of Cairo.

2.   Militants opened fire on a convoy of Israeli military and civilian vehicles.

3.   Palestinian militants opened fire Sunday on people waiting at a bus stop in northern Israel, killing three, police and rescue officials said.

4.   Police said militants opened fire during the search, setting off an exchange in which four militants were killed.

5.   A Muslim militant opened fire on a cordon of Israeli troops surrounding his hideout Thursday, seriously wounding an Israeli officer before he was killed by army gunfire.

6.   A source close to Serb police in the province said the militants opened fire on a police patrol Saturday in southwestern Kosovo, killing one policemen and injuring another.

7.   About an hour before the church attack, two militants opened fire at the Samalout train station and killed police guard Mohammed Ibrahim, the sources said.

8.   Also Wednesday, ethnic Albanian militants opened fire on Serb police in the village of Lucane, just outside the buffer zone, state television reported.

9.   An Interior Ministry statement said that the militants in Minya opened fire when police arrived early Saturday and surrounded their hideout in an agricultural area.

10.   As security forces closed in, however, the militant opened fire.