11.   Hamas says the blast came in retaliation for the killing of five Palestinian policemen by Israeli security forces earlier this week.

12.   He said the blast apparently came from the outside of the building.

13.   Investigators focus on likelihood the blast came from a bomb.

14.   It was unclear whether the blasts were coming from Kandahar or from targets south of the city.

15.   It appeared the blast came from a pipe bomb, Mandela spokesman Parks Mankahlana said.

16.   Izvestia quoted Igor Kurdin, who leads a group of retired submariners, saying that Spassky had told him that the first blast indeed came from a misfiring torpedo.

17.   Navy officials in the United States said explosives experts have concluded that the blast came from an external source, bolstering the contention that it was a terrorist attack.

18.   Nafez Azzam, the head of Islamic Jihad, a small militant faction, would say only that the blast did not come as a surprise.

19.   Oklahoma blast came on anniversary of another anti-government incident in Waco, Texas.

20.   Singleton hit his ninth homer in the fifth, and both blasts came after failed bunt attempts.