21.   Ten gunmen stormed into the bedroom of a Sunni Muslim militant early Saturday, killing him and his son, who was sleeping beside him, the authorities said.

22.   The children appeared to be sleeping beside each other.

23.   A man who strangled his wife slept beside her body for several months while it decomposed before he was arrested in bed with the corpse.

24.   The defendant denied the murder, and said he had slept beside the body because he did not want to lose his wife.