111.   Smoking will also be banned on inter-city buses, and trains and ferries will have to set aside at least half of their seats as nonsmoking sections.

112.   Smoking is already banned on all U.S. domestic flights, except for those longer than six hours and those to and from Alaska and Hawaii.

113.   Smoking is now banned on flights of less than two hours.

114.   Smoking will be banned on Kuwait Airways flights that are two hours or less in duration, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said Tuesday.

115.   The airline has been banned on several occasions from flying to Britain because of alleged insurance and safety irregularities.

116.   The bank adheres to Islamic banking regulations banning interest on all transactions, but instead acquires shares in projects in which it invests.

117.   Thailand banned on Tuesday the latest issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine, which carries an article claiming tensions between the king and the prime minister.

118.   The bank, established nearly three years ago, adheres to the strict Islamic law, which bans interest on all transactions, including loans to customers.

119.   The Belgian government, meantime, continued to ban imports on beverages produced at the Coca-Cola plant at Dunkirk, France.

120.   The EU Commission said it needed more time to consider banning on live pig sales from several regions of the Netherlands to counter a widening outbreak of swine fever.