1.   He is a nephew of Edmond J. Safra, a banker and philanthropist who died last year in an apparent arson in Monaco.

2.   Some civil rights leaders believe the sentencing is linked to the apparent arsons of three black churches in neighboring Greene County.

3.   While being treated several hours later in a hospital emergency room, she learned her home had been damaged in an apparent arson fire.

4.   Also Monday, watchful parishioners prevented the latest apparent arson attack on a church in Northern Ireland from spreading.

5.   Despite tightened security, gang-related violence has continued to spread in Macau, including an apparent arson Thursday at a travel agency, reports said.

6.   Fire raged through a pub in northern Taiwan before dawn Monday, killing eight people in what police said was an apparent arson attack.

7.   Mourners held an emotional vigil into the early morning Friday for the immigrant victims of an apparent arson fire.

8.   A building housing a Jewish bookstore and kosher delicatessen was also the target of an apparent arson attack last Thursday in Brussels.

9.   Bridgestock said police were making inquiries within their extended family and abroad but that so far there was no obvious motive for the apparent arson attack.