1.   A Russian-French crew blasted off Sunday for the International Space Station, a mission control spokesman said.

2.   A Vatican mission spokesman was not immediately available Monday afternoon.

3.   A soldier in the Caribbean contingent of the U.N. military mission shot and killed a colleague, mission spokesman Eric Falt said Friday.

4.   A tractor-trailer carried in large anti-tank shells, while mission spokesman Maj. Alexander Dick said the majority of weapons surrendered were automatic assault rifles.

5.   But combatants were due to begin handing over their weapons again on Saturday, U.N. peacekeeping mission spokesman Patrick Coker said in the capital, Freetown.

6.   Five men and two women were killed, U.N. military mission spokesman Eric Falt said Thursday.

7.   Gunmen strafed a U.N. vehicle parked in front of a residence of peacekeepers in provincial Petit-Goave, a U.N. mission spokesman said Monday.

8.   Gunmen shot and wounded a provincial police officer Wednesday, U.N. mission spokesman Eric Falt said.

9.   However, U.N. mission spokesman Eric Falt said the two peacekeepers were involved in a prostitution ring.

10.   In Dili, U.N. mission spokesman Yasuhiro Ueki denied that pro-independence fighters had driven in a U.N. vehicle.