41.   A wintry storm in the Alps has caught French and foreign tourists by surprise, leaving at least five people dead and one missing, officials said Tuesday.

42.   All have been charged with planting guns at crime scenes and covering up four questionable police shootings that left three people dead.

43.   An overnight battle that ended with the army shelling a house in the capital of Indian-held Kashmir left seven people dead, police said Thursday.

44.   An ethnic group threatened on Thursday to extend a strike that has virtually shut down Karachi for the past two days and left at least nine people dead.

45.   An accident between a truck and a minibus in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura left five people dead and eight injured.

46.   An after-hours hold-up at a post office in an affluent New York City suburb left four people dead and another person critically wounded.

47.   An Algerian connection gained increasing favor Friday in the investigation of the subway bombing in Paris this week that left seven people dead.

48.   An avalanche roared into a small town in the Alps in western Austria on Tuesday, leaving at least seven people dead and dozens more missing.

49.   Bamenda was the scene last year of anti-government rioting that left more than a dozen people dead.

50.   But government opponents cried foul, accusing the government of stuffing ballots, drawing up voting lists with names of people long dead and busing in supporters.