At least 18 people were injured Wednesday in a rush-hour bomb attack on a packed train just outside Colombo, the capital, officials said.
Except for a three-hour bomb-scare evacuation of one building and a four-day suspension of the after-school program, they succeeded.
Our group spent a night in a salt hotel but this was the highlight: hours bombing it across the salt flats in a 4x4 with nothing else around.
TRIPOLI, Libya — After a 72-hour bombing lull to allow President Jacob Zuma of South Africa to fly into Tripoli on an unsuccessful peace mission for the African Union, NATO resumed its airstrikes on the Libyan capital after dusk on Tuesday.
Less than 24 hours later London listened to a different soundtrack - the wail of police and ambulance sirens as three rush-hour bombs exploded on the tube and another ripped apart a double-decker bus, killing 52 people.
A police commander said the attacks subsided only after American warplanes staged a two-hour bombing raid before dawn on Thursday of a district where Mr. Sadr had a militia base.
In a statement on its Web site, the Turkish military said it had struck 70 targets in the Avashin and Hakurk districts in a 12-hour bombing run that began at 3 a.m.
Falla looked almost like Nadal, hammering returns to the backhand before Federer figured him out, while Bozoljac left Federer baffled with 137-mile, or 220-kilometer, per-hour bombs, a few sneaky offspeed serves wide, and two-handers smacked from both sides as if every grounder were struck downhill.
Starting on 13 February 1945, British and US planes unleashed a massive 37-hour bombing, sparking a huge inferno that engulfed the city's old town.
He told The Atlantic he has in mind "something like Operation Desert Fox" — referring to a 70-hour bombing campaign the U.S. carried out against Saddam in 1998.
