Group escapes  gun attack
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Thirteen people escape injury after shots are fired into a crowded house in County Armagh.
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We made it back into the house last night. There were National Guardsmen at key checkpoints in Poway that were set up to protect neighborhoods from looters. These young men were carrying fully loaded M16s. For a quick second I thought I was in a war zone. That was incredibly intimidating for me.
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MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan -- A suspected missile attack on a militant hide-out in a remote area of northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border killed more than 20 insurgents yesterday, security officials said.
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Iraqi politician and former US favourite Ahmed Chalabi escapes unhurt after gunmen open fire on his convoy.
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Students were evacuated from a Colorado   high school on Wednesday after shots were fired and a gunman   who said he had explosives took at least four hostages, police   said.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s interim successor has escaped uninjured after militants opened fire in a mourning tent for the dead leader. Mahmoud Abbas was whisked to safety after militants firing rifles burst in on the tent just after he arrived.
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Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Mahmoud Abbas escaped injury on Sunday after masked gunmen opened fire near him inside a tent where people were mourning Yasser Arafat, witnesses said.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the temporary successor to Yasser Arafat, escaped unharmed Sunday when militants firing assault rifles burst into a mourning tent for the deceased Palestinian leader, killing two security guards and wounding six other people.
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Police shot to death an armed man holding five hostages in a small-town post office west of Paris after a robbery attempt, and the captives were freed unharmed after a three-hour ordeal, the interior minister said.
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Two people escape injury following a petrol bomb attack on a house in Ballymena, County Antrim.
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A Hamas member escaped an assassination attempt Monday after a bomb damaged his car in Damascus, in an incident that both Hamas and Syria blamed on Israel.
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A gunman opened fire in a building on the campus of Northern Illinois University this afternoon, and several people were taken away by ambulance, the university announced.
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Turkish paramilitary police  escaped unscathed from a suicide attack by the separatist  Kurdistan Workers&#39; Party (PKK) late on Saturday, the provincial  governor said on Sunday.
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By Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 3--Three masked men with a gun robbed an employee of a Palo Alto restaurant early this morning, police said.   About 12:30 a.m.
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Seven suspects were detained during the operation in the northern city of Buraida, the reports said. &quot;A patrol car caught fire after it was hit by a bullet while chasing a suspect&#39;s car&quot;, a security source told the AFP news agency.
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Nine are killed in attack on US consulate by the group, which has been quiet in past 6 months. By Craig Whitlock / Washington Post.
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Gunmen stopped a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants, shot several and took the rest captive Thursday in an attack that left at least three men dead and two people wounded, authorities said.