61.   Police say Long confessed to setting the fire when he was tracked down in the bush by police dogs just days after the fire.

62.   Pope John Paul II asked people to pray for the town of Bethlehem on Monday, just hours after an incursion by Israeli tanks.

63.   A bomb heavily damaged the City Hall of this southwestern city shortly before midnight and just hours after the mayor, Premier Alain Juppe, had left for Paris.

64.   A gun battle erupted at the Church of the Nativity on Thursday, just hours after fire engulfed parts of the besieged compound during another fierce firefight.

65.   A teen-ager shot for his motorbike died Monday just hours after police charged four men for a crime that unsettled even violence-hardened Naples.

66.   A teen-ager was sentenced Friday to six months in jail for sending threatening Internet messages to San Diego-area students just days after a fatal school shooting there.

67.   Among them were twin brothers who were born just hours after partition, but were separated soon afterwards.

68.   Attackers threw gasoline bombs at police officers guarding a synagogue in southern France, just days after a similar attack at the site, police said Sunday.

69.   Boeing Co. production workers went on strike early Friday over job security, medical benefits and pay just hours after rejecting what their leaders called an insulting contract offer.

70.   But just minutes after the goal, the match was stopped by a power outage.