21.   The slaying in Cabramatta, a immigrant-dominated suburb of Sydney, shocked Australia and later added fuel to calls by some to curb Asian immigration.

22.   The two policemen involved in the Monday night slaying in the northwestern Kenya farming town of Eldoret have been charged with murder.

23.   Toscan du Plantier took umbrage at those who have criticized him for not addressing the slaying in public.

24.   A hospital employee blasted two fellow workers with a pump action shotgun before turning the gun on himself in a triple slaying in northern Australia Thursday.