61.   Fire gutted offices at the Malacanang presidential palace compound early Thursday, but there were no reports of injuries.

62.   Fire guts parliament building.

63.   Fire gutted a furniture showroom Friday as authorities reported they arrested several arsonists in a crackdown following weeks of anti-government unrest.

64.   Fire gutted a seven-story Agriculture Department building and damaged buildings used by state banks and the military.

65.   Fire gutted a seven-story government building, two double-decker buses and cars.

66.   Fire gutted an Algerian freighter ship Thursday, burning thousands of tires and other cargo, maritime police said.

67.   Fire gutted the rear third of the building Sunday.

68.   Five children and five adults suffered burns and smoke inhalation when a fire gutted a building in this northern German town early on Christmas Day, police said.

69.   Foreigners carrying hastily packed suitcases stampeded out of the riot-torn capital, where rescue workers removed charred bodies from shopping malls gutted by fire.

70.   Hundreds of Protestant worshipers gathered for a Christmas Day service in a church gutted by fire in a riot, praying and singing hymns within mottled and blackened walls.