11.   The document was addressed to Communist Party authorities in Chongren county in Jiangxi, and detailed measures ordered against underground worshippers in a township identified as Donglai.

12.   The Iranian death order against Salman Rushdie may lifted soon, a Swedish official said, appearing with the British-Indian writer Thursday.

13.   Five people burned to death in the unrest which blew up after anger at a five-year jail term ordered against a man found guilty of insulting Islam.

14.   Adams was on his first visit to mainland Britain since the lifting of the exclusion order against him last month.

15.   The sentence is one of the biggest ordered against a US citizen in Vietnam, where drug smuggling can carry the death penalty.

16.   Twenty prisoners ordered against their will to enter the Jericho enclave were turned back by Palestinian police.

17.   Playboy Entertainment Group on Friday said it had won a restraining order against a provision in recent US legislation that would restrict the transmission of material deemed obscene.