11.   On Friday, dozens of curious Iraqis drove along a desert highway to see the city.

12.   She said she expected the men would leave Iraq by a desert highway to neighboring Jordan.

13.   Seventeen people were killed and seven were injured Wednesday when their speeding minibus rammed into a truck on a desert highway in southern Egypt, police officials said.

14.   The accident took place on a desert highway near the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Al-Gomhuria newspaper reported Wednesday, citing unidentified police officials.

15.   The find was made earlier this year as construction workers were digging the foundations for a bridge to link west Alexandria to the desert highway to Cairo.

16.   The desert highway is one of the few ways into Iraq because air travel is banned to Iraq under U.N. sanctions.

17.   The desert highway is one of the few ways into Iraq because of the sanctions that also ban air travel to that country.

18.   The first shows two cowboys swimming naked and dancing down a desert highway accompanied by three carnival-float beauty queens.

19.   Two shepherds were killed and two others wounded Saturday when a mine exploded near a desert highway, police said.

20.   Six people were killed as several trucks crashed into each other on the Amman-Aqaba desert highway, Jordanian police said Monday.