Gunmen stormed into the home of a Nigerian politician and abducted his 14-year-old son, police said today.

Gunmen have kidnapped a British oil worker from an offshore oil rig in southern Nigeria, British officials said today.

Gunmen in a speeding car opened fire today on two sisters working as translators for the British consulate in Iraq, killing one of them and seriously wounding the oher, police said.

GUNMEN who stormed a bus station north-east of Baghdad kidnapped 24 people, killing all but four of them.

Gunmen attacked the car of a top Sunni political leader in Baghdad today, killing one bodyguard and wounding five.

Gunmen fired today on the funeral procession of a well known Al-Arabiya newswoman, who was killed while covering the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine, sending mourners dashing for cover, police and army said.

Gunmen killed the wife and two sons of a Sunni Arab cleric north of Baghdad, while a baker was shot dead inside his bakery in the Iraqi capital, police said today.

Gunmen stormed an offshore oil platform run Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria and kidnapped four foreign oil workers, while a separate pipeline that pumps 106,000 barrels crude daily ruptured, company officials said today.

Gunmen tried to assassinate an investigative judge on the Iraqi Special Tribunal that is investigating Saddam Hussein and members of his regime, a spokesman for the court said today.

Gunmen tried to assassinate the Afghan defence minister today by shooting at his convoy at Kabul's main airport, but he already had left his vehicle and was unhurt, a Defence Ministry spokesman said.

GUNMEN killed an aide to Iraq’s most influential Shi’ite cleric and two bodyguards in a drive-by shooting outside a Baghdad mosque yesterday — an attack likely to stoke tensions between the Shi’ite majority and the Sunni minority, officials said.

Gunmen killed an aide to Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric and two bodyguards in a drive-by shooting outside a Baghdad mosque today – an attack likely to stoke tensions between the Shiite majority and the Sunni minority, officials said.

GUNMEN assassinated an Iraqi woman member of parliament yesterday in a fresh shock to politicians whose failure to form a government three months after elections has allowed violence to thrive unchecked.

Gunmen have assassinated a senior Iraqi judge and killed his bodyguard today in a series of shootings of government employees and policemen that highlight grave security risks ahead in the run-up to this weekend’s elections.

GUNMEN killed Baghdad's governor in Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months yesterday.

Gunmen assassinated the governor of the Iraqi province that includes Baghdad, Ali al-Haidari, today, police officials said.

Gunmen shot two men in a smoke shop and a third while he read a newspaper in his car in separate attacks today in neighbouring towns, as a crime clan's turf war continues to bloody the Naples area, state TV said.

Gunmen attacked two men who had been working with the British military in southern Iraq, killing one and wounding another.

Gunmen have attempted to kidnap actress Catherine Zeta Jones as she returned from a movie shoot in Mexico, accordingt o a report on Sky News.

Gunmen ambushed an Associated Press driver today, riddling his car with bullets and killing him near his home in Baghdad.

Gunmen kidnapped the head of an Iraqi government-owned construction company in Baghdad today, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

GUNMEN burned down the offices of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in Gaza yesterday, as anger spread over the Palestinian leader's overhaul of his security forces that many saw as falling short of genuine reform.

Gunmen have kidnapped the Palestinian chief of police for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, witnesses said.

Gunmen assassinated a provincial governor yesterday, hours after a suicide attacker detonated a massive car bomb that killed at least 10 and wounded 40, in the worst attack in Baghdad since the United States handed power to an Iraqi interim government on June 28.

GUNMEN killed a senior pro-Taliban cleric yesterday, sparking riots across the southern Pakistani city of Karachi by thousands of his Sunni Muslim supporters.

Gunmen assassinated an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad just as Iran, with tacit US approval, attempted to mediate with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr defying American forces in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf.

Gunmen today shot dead two Iraqi journalists who worked for a coalition-funded television station in northeastern Iraq, a spokesman for the station said.

GUNMEN describing themselves as Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen militia vowed to step up attacks on US forces and their Iraqi collaborators to avenge the killing of his sons Uday and Qusay, in a video aired on Al-Arabiya television yesterday.

Gunmen on a motorbike have opened fire on an Italian government adviser as he bicycled home from work, killing him steps from his front door in Bologna.