101.   A hearing began to determine whether a Swiss financier wanted in a multibillion-dollar bankruptcy scandal should be extradited to his homeland.

102.   A hearing began Tuesday to decide whether to extradite Swiss property speculator Peter Krueger and his wife, Barbara, back to their homeland to face bankruptcy charges.

103.   A hearing begins in the Hague on Monday to decide where a trial of the two Libyan suspects should be held.

104.   A hearing began Tuesday for a West Virginia couple accused of murdering a water taxi driver while sailing in the Caribbean.

105.   A hearing will begin later this month to decide whether to extradite a man to Italy on kidnapping charges, a magistrate said Wednesday.

106.   A hearing began Thursday that may decide whether a court will indict the former seven-time premier or dismiss the allegations of decades of Mafia collaboration.

107.   A sentencing hearing began on Thursday, with numerous witnesses pleading for leniency.

108.   Also Wednesday, hearings began in Bordeaux for Maurice Papon, who was a high-ranking official of the Vichy collaborationist regime during the Nazi occupation.

109.   An administrative hearing begins Tuesday in the case.

110.   Although the hearing will begin in public, the judge could send the parties into private negotiations for much of Friday and into Saturday.