21.   Also Thursday, a shopkeeper in the same neighborhood was gunned down by unidentified assailants, police said.

22.   An activist who represents women widowed during the civil war said she had been kidnapped, interrogated and cut with a knife by four unidentified assailants.

23.   An Egyptian diplomat was shot to death by two unidentified assailants on a rural highway near the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, authorities reported Thursday.

24.   An unidentified assailant fired a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the car, riddling it with bullets.

25.   An unidentified assailant guided the toy car up to a door, where the device exploded Wednesday evening, police said.

26.   An Austrian Airlines flight from Berlin to Vienna was hijacked Tuesday by an unidentified assailant.

27.   The recruiter was not seriously injured.

28.   An unidentified assailant hurled a stun grenade at the Tehran offices of a controversial newspaper Monday and two reporters were slightly injured in the blast, newspaper staff said.

29.   An unidentified assailant hurled a stun grenade Monday at the offices of a moderate Iranian newspaper, slightly injuring two reporters, newspaper staff said.

30.   An unidentified assailant stabbed Beyaz three times in the chest as students were leaving the hall, newspapers said.