11.   Dozens of mosques and Moslem properties have been vandalised or destroyed and first degree security alerts were reported to have been called in five Burmese cities.

12.   Jordan, Morocco and Saudi Arabia banned British beef six years ago, during a first alert over the cattle infection.

13.   Prompting the first such alert for the UN Protection Force here, an anonymous caller warned a bomb would go off inside the compound, an official said.

14.   The first level alert remains in force in other parts of the central Philippines and in provinces south of Manila.