1.   In Somalia the combination of war and famine claimed a quarter of a million children dead last year.

2.   A fire sweeping through a slum dwelling in southeastern Brazil Sunday morning left three children dead and injured their father and an elder brother, local police said.

3.   A gas lamp exploded Sunday in central El Salvador, starting a house fire that left three children dead and their mother severely injured, police said.

4.   Emergency workers declared the unidentified child dead at the scene, the firefighter, Chris Fields, said Thursday.

5.   Fields said emergency medical workers pronounced the child dead on arrival.

6.   She discovered the child dead at the end of the work day.

7.   And UN officials said local fighting in northeast Badakhshan province has prevented aid workers from treating a suspected influenza outbreak that has left more than two dozen children dead.

8.   Kabul itself came under air attack, which left at least three children dead and another eight people wounded, witnesses said.