31.   A fire gutted a shopping center Monday in the capital Manama, sending about a dozen residents of apartments above the stores fleeing.

32.   A fire gutted three stories of an eight-story apartment building, killing four people and seriously injuring one Saturday night.

33.   A fire on Monday gutted the factory of the biggest supplier of bedding material in the Gulf.

34.   A fire gutted a gem of Muslim architecture, the Palace of Musafirkhana, in Old Cairo on Thursday.

35.   A man was killed and another badly burned when a fire gutted part of a military hostel in the center of Moscow on Thursday, officials said.

36.   A polling office responsible for a number of precincts was gutted by fire early today in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Kenscoff, destroying an unknown number of marked ballots.

37.   A fire gutted a two-story clothes store in a town outside the Bahrain capital of Manama, the Gulf Daily News newspaper reported Tuesday.

38.   A number of factories were also gutted by fires.

39.   A Honda dealership was gutted by fire.

40.   A Shell gas station in Hamburg, Germany was gutted by fire before dawn Friday.