1.   Seven people died and four were seriously injured following a fire that completely destroyed a barracks in a logging camp in the Russian Far East on Friday.

2.   Two people were seriously injured following an explosion at a house in the center of this port city on Tuesday, local officials said.

3.   Australian Daryll Beattie was injured following a spectacular crash during the qualifying session of the French Motorcycle Grand Prix here on Saturday.

4.   Three people were injured following the police intervention.

5.   Three people died and one was injured following a shoot-out between kidnappers and a group of small farmers in the rural state of Oaxaca, police reported Monday.