11.   Police said the villagers started off by blocking the road and making threatening remarks before the situation got out of hand.

12.   The center quoted local Serb authorities in Novo Selo, just west of the provincial capital Pristina, as saying villager Stanojko Mihajlovic was killed on his doorstep.

13.   The crash shook homes in the village of Tangtou, close to where the plane came down, said villager Zhen Huanlong.

14.   The official said the villagers found the mortar shell in the ground, which had been dredged last month from the nearby river to make foundations for the road.

15.   The sentence was based on the Shariat, the strict Muslim code of conduct, said villagers.

16.   Those were the only instances of gunfire, villagers said.

17.   Hundreds of residents from an eastern Chinese village have staged a four-day protest over elections they say were fixed by local authorities, villagers said Thursday.

18.   Burmese authorities say many villagers across the country offer up voluntary labor for development projects, while prisoners often can reduce their sentences by working on chain gangs.

19.   Drunken Russian troops went on a shooting spree in this Chechen village bordering Ingushetia, firing at random from their tanks and killing a child, villagers said Friday.

20.   Muttaqin said villagers at Rantau in East Aceh on Tuesday found the body of a man with his throat slashed.