41.   Fourteen soldiers were burnt alive in a crash between the lorry they were travelling in and a trailer near the outskirts of Sofia, police said Saturday.

42.   Hamada, who police said had previous arrests for common crimes, was suspected by militants of working as a police informer.

43.   Hundreds of people poured from their homes in a poverty-stricken neighborhood nearby to join in the sacking, said police chief Mario Altamirano Gonzalez.

44.   In the neighbouring village of Barzalla, gunmen abducted a contractor whom they shot dead, said police, who also blamed the north Kashmir killings on Hizbul.

45.   A former Senator charged with influence peddling was seriously injured in a bomb blast after leaving a political meeting here late Tuesday, police said.

46.   A man, believed to be a right-wing political activist, fired a pistol at former prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa here Monday but missed, police said.

47.   A member of the Saudi royal family, Princess Latifa, owned a flat in the building but was not present when the collapse occurred, police said.

48.   A man stabbed Nobel prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz in the neck here Friday, police said.

49.   A powerful bomb exploded in a van outside the railway station here late Thursday, killing at least three people, police said.

50.   A Roman Catholic businessman was shot to death in a flat he was sharing with a protestant girlfriend in a Belfast protestant district here early Friday, police said.