11.   An Ayrshire man is considering legal action against Crosshouse Hospital after his wife died following a routine operation there.

12.   Oil leaking from the Cypriot-registered Haven tanker, which exploded during a routine pumping operation off Genoa, caused pollution along the Mediterranean coast eastwards towards Nice.

13.   A sudden increase in emergency patients has meant that some routine operations have had to be cancelled at the Princess Margaret hospital in Swindon.

14.   A solicitor who was confined to a wheelchair after a routine operation has taken her claim for compensation to the High Court.

15.   She became paralysed at sixteen, the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital.

16.   -- Some plans have strict limits on the length of hospital stays for routine operations, like a Caesarean section or a hernia operation.

17.   A routine operation turned into a harrowing one-month ordeal in the hospital for Beltre.

18.   Foley said the arrest interrupted routine operations at the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas while security personnel searched the premises, but nothing suspicious was found.

19.   For example, all routine operations at the USS Constitution were expected to close Tuesday, except for critical security and maintenance personnel.

20.   French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement was temporarily replaced Thursday after suffering a heart attack Wednesday in a routine operation to remove gallstones.