1.   In Kabul, the pounding of antiaircraft batteries echoed across the shattered city Saturday as the Taliban poured fire on the high-flying aircraft.

2.   There are no people in this shattered city who note the passing minutes anymore.

3.   After a decade of war, Jaffna is a shattered city.

4.   Amanullah, like every Kabul resident, knows that to survive in this shattered city you have to be flexible.

5.   APTV looks at the problems of returning this shattered city to normality.

6.   But it is one of the few ways to make money in a shattered city that no longer has a formal economy.

7.   Darkness settles on the shattered city.

8.   Despite the renewed bombing Wednesday, Chechen fighters remained in control of the shattered city centre.

9.   Federal forces were on heightened alert Saturday in the capital, Grozny, in anticipation of possible rebel attacks in the shattered city.

10.   For about three years Kabul was under constant bombardment as rival factions fought with heavy weapons for control of the shattered city.