1.   An Iranian national also died Wednesday while climbing down the Matterhorn.

2.   An Iranian national also died Wednesday while climbing down a mountain at Cervin.

3.   In addition, two Lebanese nationals died when looters shot them.

4.   Two Czech nationals died and two others were seriously wounded Wednesday when their car struck a stationary truck in northern Bulgaria, the state newsagency BTA reported.

5.   In August, a Romanian national died and two foreign tourists were wounded by a time bomb explosion.

6.   Ali Buhindi, head of the anti-drugs department in Sharjah, said three nationals died from drug abuse in the emirate last year.

7.   Beijing has said Washington violated a consular agreement by failing to notify its embassy that two Chinese nationals had died in the United States.

8.   Their arrest followed an attack in Algiers in which five French nationals died.

9.   It is thought that seven British nationals died when the hijacked plane crash-landed into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros Islands on Saturday.

10.   Meanwhile, officials said they were trying to verify reports that a Bangladeshi national had died in the crash.