1.   Executives are increasingly targets of car bombings, and an American businessman was killed in St. Petersburg last February.

2.   Police believe the businessmen were killed by a Chinese gang.

3.   Police and troops rescued two kidnapped businessmen, but another abducted businessman was killed by his captors.

4.   Police believe that someone in Russia ordered Beck and Ben-Asher to kill three businessmen, immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

5.   A bomb exploded in downtown Moscow on Thursday, killing a businessman and injuring his two bodyguards, police said.

6.   A businessman was killed Friday when a gunman on a motorcycle shot him at least twice in the chest.

7.   A businessman was killed and three border guards were taken hostage in the latest unrest in this restive former Soviet republic in Central Asia, officials said Tuesday.

8.   A Jewish businessman was killed Tuesday by three gunmen who fired from a passing car in this city in western Turkey, police said.

9.   A French businessman was killed after his motorcycle collided with a truck carrying wood in Republic of Congo, state radio said Thursday.

10.   A Russian businessman was killed on his way to work Wednesday by an unidentified gunman in what appeared to be an organized crime killing, according to news reports.