1.   A doomsday cult member convicted of murder escaped the death penalty Tuesday for his role in the worst act of terrorism in modern-day Japan.

2.   A former doomsday cult member admitted Wednesday to helping abduct a man who died while being held by the cult, according to Japanese media.

3.   A former Japanese doomsday cult member pleaded guilty Friday to carrying out three attacks with VX nerve gas, killing one person and injuring two.

4.   The president of a major broadcaster plans to resign because it secretly showed doomsday cult members an unaired tape of a lawyer harshly criticizing the cult.

5.   Three teenagers who survived one botched group suicide attempt were spared a second pact in which their parents and three other doomsday cult members died, police said Monday.

6.   Swiss police have given French investigators the names of Solar Temple doomsday sect members who could be contemplating mass suicide, the Nouveau Quotidien de Lausanne reported Friday.