1.   A group of Jewish settlers on Thursday scuffled with Arab workers drilling a well in a village south of the West Bank town of Hebron, Palestinians said.

2.   A Moscow radio station said Russian aircraft bombed mountain villages south of Grozny Sunday.

3.   Afghan soldiers have discovered a videotape related to Osama bin Laden in a village south of Kabul, officials said Sunday.

4.   Afghan soldiers have discovered a video tape related to Osama bin Laden in a village south of Kabul, officials said Sunday.

5.   Armed men attacked a home in a rural village south of the capital, slitting the throats of six men and two women, the Algerian press reported Thursday.

6.   Attackers slit the throats of six people, including four blind women, in a village south of Algiers, the security forces said in a statement Sunday.

7.   Five people were killed Wednesday by exploding land mines in a village south of the Georgian capital, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

8.   For nearly two years Ronald De Cost has been laying the foundations of a seaside resort in this poor fishing village south of Jakarta.

9.   In the hours after the verdict, streets in Shiite villages south of Manama, the capital, were empty as usual during the hot, summer workday.

10.   Iraqi television showed footage of a village south of Baghdad that it said had been hit by American missiles.