5 executed, 1 to die in China: Chinese authorities have executed five men for murder and robbery and sentenced to death another convicted of knifing and pouring acid on a woman, a state-run media reported Friday. AP reports from Beijing.

"The five were executed Wednesday In the northeastern city of Shenyang. In Liaoning province, after the provincial high court upheld their death sentences for armed robberies that resulted in the deaths of 16 people, the Beijing Morning Post re-

Flash floods kill 6 in Philippines: Floods brought on bv heavy rains have killed six people and left at least 5.700 homeless in the southern Philippine province of Misamis Oriental, the military said at Zamboanga. Philippines. AFP reports from Philippines.

Pounding rains since Monday caused rivers in the province to overflow, destroying 300 houses, said military southern command spokesman Colonel Fredesvindo Covarrubias.