11.   Bombs were found in a department store and under a bus seat in two southern Philippine cities Thursday, police said.

12.   Bombs were found stuffed in a jacket in a department store and under a bus seat in two southern Philippine cities Thursday, police said.

13.   Davao City, meanwhile, has flights from Manila and other Philippine cities, as well as from other Southeast Asian countries.

14.   Five animals performing for a Russian circus in a southern Philippine city have died of electrocution, a newspaper reported Monday.

15.   Forty-nine inmates fled jail in a southern Philippine city, officials said Sunday.

16.   Forty-nine inmates fled jail in this southern Philippine city, and two were killed by pursuing police, officials said Sunday.

17.   Gunmen on motorcycles fired rockets and grenades at a provincial capitol building, injuring one person in a southern Philippine city before dawn Saturday.

18.   Hundreds of businessmen two weeks ago paralyzed a southern Philippine city by padlocking their offices in a one-day protest against the high rates.

19.   Kidnappers seized a motorcycle-riding businessman by knocking him over with a rope stretched across a road in a southern Philippine city, police said Thursday.

20.   Many public transport drivers also went on strike in Iloilo, a key central Philippine city.