21.   President Bashar Assad, according to Saudi press reports published Sunday, will travel to Saudi Arabia this week for talks on the plan.

22.   Reppas did confirm a report published in the Athens daily Ta Nea about bolstered security at the United States embassy, and American diplomatic and business interests.

23.   Yang and Gao, both eye doctors, denied responsibility for the murder and asked to appeal, said the report published Tuesday and seen in Beijing on Wednesday.

24.   Fossils unearthed in China are casting doubt on the theory that dinosaurs evolved into birds, says a report published Friday in the journal Science.

25.   He denied press reports published in July saying Syria was planning to extradite a group of Egyptian Islamic militants to Cairo.

26.   A Pentagon spokesman said he could not confirm the report published by Hearst Newspapers and carried Wednesday by Pacific Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper.

27.   A report published Monday found serious malnutrition among Aboriginal infants and the Australian Medical Association called for prompt government action on Aboriginal health.

28.   A United Nations report published this month calls on China to revise its constitution to introduce religious tolerance and release people jailed for the political or religious beliefs.

29.   Another report published days earlier spoke of Hutu refugees returning to the country, including authors of the genocide, being arrested and killed.

30.   British Home Office officials dealing with asylum seekers flout international law and disregard standards of natural justice, claimed a report published here Friday.