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Explosion Collapses Moscow Building Tue Aug 20, 8:23 PM ET By STEVE GUTTERMAN, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) - An explosion tore through a five-story apartment house in the north of Moscow late Tuesday, killing at least one person and leveling a 45-foot-wide section of the building. Emergency officials feared up to 15 people could be trapped in the wreckage. Moscow police spokesman Valery Gribakin said the blast killed one person and injured three. Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said a gas leak was the most probable cause. NTV television reported later that four people were killed. There was no...

Islamic Party Rises in Turkey Mon Aug 19, 2:34 AM ET Ali Abaci, a farmer from Cubuk, 66, a wheat farming town on the outskirts of Ankara, speaks to The Associated Press in this Aug. 9, 2002 file photo. Many residents in Cubuk say they are angry at Turkey's leading political parties and plan to vote for the pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party of Istanbul's popular, former mayor R. Tayyip Erdogan. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) By SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press Writer MUTLU KOY, Turkey (AP) - For Osman Ozturk, Turkey's economic slide means all he can afford to feed his family...

This is an excerpt of an item not much commented on in this story. Qaeda Videos Seem to Show Chemical Tests Mon Aug 19, 3:15 PM ET By JUDITH MILLER The New York Times The archive includes instruction tapes on bomb-making and on how to shoot surface-to-air weapons, as well as the first meeting of Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites) and other Qaeda leaders with foreign journalists in May 1998, and other tapes often violent contributed by affiliated groups in Bosnia, Chechnya ( news - web sites), Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere.