1.   Meanwhile, the string of mostly sunny days will continue in south Florida while some clouds and thunder visit the northern peninsula.

2.   A day after the Sri Lankan government rejected a temporary cease-fire offer from separatist rebels, Tamil Tigers attacked troops defending the northern Jaffna peninsula.

3.   Also Friday, rebels shot and killed a soldier driving a military ambulance in Kopay town in the northern Jaffna peninsula, the official said.

4.   And in the northern Jaffna peninsula, government troops killed a Tamil Tiger rebel who tried to embrace a soldier while detonating a hand grenade, he added.

5.   Attempts to reach military and government officials in the northern Jaffna peninsula were not successful.

6.   Both rebel boats were damaged in the confrontation near Nakarkoyil, a town on the northern Jaffna peninsula, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

7.   Capturing the highway would let the government send supplies to the isolated northern Jaffna peninsula by road.

8.   Control of the highway will allow the government to transport supplies to the isolated northern Jaffna peninsula by road.

9.   De Silva identified her as an ethnic Tamil named Pushpamalar from the northern Jaffna peninsula.

10.   De Silva identified the woman as an ethnic Tamil named Pushpamalar from the northern Jaffna peninsula.