1.   A car carrying explosives blew up in the Yemeni capital Saturday, killing the driver and a passenger while critically injuring three others, police officials said.

2.   A week of reconciliation talks in the Yemeni capital Sanaa ended in failure Saturday after the Eritrean delegation accused Sudan of continuing to support Eritrean rebels.

3.   Windows shattered, but nobody was hurt.

4.   Yemen, a southern Arabian Peninsula country, is not a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

5.   Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoun Mesfin, who arrived in the Yemeni capital Thursday, said Ethiopia enjoyed good relations with both Yemen and Eritrea and felt qualified to mediate.

6.   Four German tourists kidnapped last month in a isolated region of Yemen were released and on their way to the Yemeni capital, a German Embassy official said Sunday.

7.   Four German tourists kidnapped last month in Yemen were released Sunday and on their way to the Yemeni capital, a German official and a negotiator said.

8.   Sattar was not accompanied by any family members at the court inthe Yemeni capital, and journalists present said he appeared tense and weary.

9.   Seven German tourists kidnapped while riding motorcycles across Yemen and held hostage for a week arrived in the Yemeni capital in good health Thursday, officials said.

10.   They delivered a protest letter to the governor of Hadramawt province, the al-Rabta opposition group said in a statement in the Yemeni capital here.