21.  Four workers from a U.N. agency were killed last week in Kabul, the Afghan capital, apparently by an errant cruise missile.

22.  For weeks a large two-story white mansion beside a stretch of open parkland in the Afghan capital has been a hive of construction, and of rumor.

23.  Four other civilians employed by a private agency hired by the United Nations to clear land mines were injured in the raid near the Afghan capital of Kabul.

24.  He fears that if the Taliban collapses and flees Kabul, the Afghan capital, it will leave a void into which the opposition Northern Alliance will rush.

25.  He had already seen Taliban militiamen yank boys from cars driving the streets of the Afghan capital.

26.  Hoon is on a one-day visit in the Afghan capital.

27.  If the Taliban withdraw from the Afghan capital and a power vacuum emerges, the nation may be in for more chaos.

28.  In January, it hopes to open a full-time bureau in Kabul, the Afghan capital.

29.  In January, it was a Kabul woman who broke the dress code by neglecting to cover her ankles while in a market place in the Afghan capital.

30.  In the evening, explosions were reported in Kabul, the Afghan capital.