61.   A parliamentary committee is discussing ways to keep practitioners of black magic and other superstitious rites from swindling customers, a local newspaper reported Thursday.

62.   A petroleum tanker truck exploded after crashing into a brick wall on Tuesday, burning alive five people and destroying seven houses, a Lagos newspaper reported Wednesday.

63.   A mother kept her mentally retarded son tethered to a tree for five years, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

64.   A man convicted of murder and robbery was executed in a public square in southern Yemen, al-Thawra newspaper reported Monday.

65.   A man has pleaded guilty to killing three of his drinking partners and eating their internal organs, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

66.   A former high-ranking Surinamese army officer in Dutch custody on suspicion of cocaine trafficking fell seriously ill and was taken to a prison hospital, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

67.   A Mexican opposition-party activist reported as kidnapped has turned up in prison, accused of killing a colleague he accused of embezzling money, newspapers reported Tuesday.

68.   A former rebel leader now allied with the government has claimed that his fighters have captured five towns in southern Sudan from rebel forces, a newspaper reported.

69.   A passenger train rammed into a truck trying to cross the tracks, killing at least three people, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

70.   A plantation worker has been sentenced to death for killing his wife with a machete, then splitting her skull and eating her brain, newspapers reported Wednesday.