101.   Ailing Tokyo Mutual Life Insurance Co. has abandoned its efforts to turn itself around and will seek approval for a court-administered rehabilitation, newspapers reported Friday.

102.   An Algerian radio host and his policeman brother were shot and killed in an ambush believed carried out by Islamic fundamentalists, independent newspapers reported Tuesday.

103.   An Asian worker was fatally burned when two shops were torched in a Shiite Muslim village that has been a hotbed of anti-government activity, newspapers reported Monday.

104.   Among the countries expected to import natural gas from the plant are Jordan and European nations, the newspaper reported.

105.   An airliner that made an emergency landing after bursting two tires was badly overloaded with extra freight, a newspaper reported Monday.

106.   An internal police investigation has concluded that Thai officers executed six alleged drug dealers after they had been taken into custody, Thai newspapers reported Sunday.

107.   An Egyptian businessman Tuesday filed a police complaint that his daughter who lives and works in London is spying on Egypt for the Israeli secret service, newspapers reported.

108.   An explosion at an alcohol factory in south China has killed five people and seriously injured three, an official newspaper reported Monday.

109.   An Indian jail warden branded his name with a red-hot iron rod on the back of an inmate who refused to pay him a bribe, newspapers reported Thursday.

110.   Among the dead was a six-year-old child caught in the crossfire, the Urdu-language newspaper The Jang reported.