1. It said the blast was " probably " due to the explosion of a gas canister.
2. The largest blast took place a few hundred yards from the secretariat, the building housing the offices of the state's chief minister.
3. Witnesses said police closed the scene of the attack and began investigating the blast as ambulances ferried casualties to a hospital.
4. A rapid series of car bombs and another blast in this Egyptian Red Sea resort devastated Saturday a luxury hotel and a coffee shop.
5. The blast stems from illegal operation of the lighter factory, according to a preliminary confirmation of the regional administration for supervision of industrial safety.
6. The blast was in front of a restaurant and a courthouse on the east bank of the Tigris which flows through the capital.
7. The blast left a small crater in the middle of the street, and debris from the explosion splattered around the crater.
8. A woman who was cycling 1 km away from the station was hit by a piece of blast debris and died in hospital.
9. The blast is the latest in a string of bombings around Damascus that the government says have killed at least 25 people.
10. The group reported a blast in one of its coal mines in Zaozhuang City that left 18 dead in February 2006.