21.   Four other helicopters are on standby in Durban to conduct search and rescue operations in the mountains, the airforce said in a statement.

22.   He said the authorities were pressing ahead, however, with a massive rescue operation off the port in North Sumatra, northwest Indonesia.

23.   Bad weather and rough seas -- with waves as high as four metres -- are hindering search and rescue operations, he added.

24.   Bolger said the suspension of military ties would not cover search and rescue operations in the Pacific nor work with the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia.

25.   The price of shares in the company has slumped arousing anger from small shareholders who have argued unsuccessfully that the French and British governments should rescue the operation.

26.   The United States issued a travel advisory for flights over Afghanistan Tuesday and warned that the ongoing hostilities there would prevent search and rescue operations for crash victims.

27.   Moldovan troops would join in training in computers and for humanitarian aid and rescue operations in cases of natural disasters, he added.

28.   Monitoring rescue operation for trapped German ship.

29.   Officials from Manikganj, the closest administrative district to the site of the accident, were supervising salvage and rescue operations.

30.   Pictures as available Monitoring rescue operations for a US couple, a Filipina nurse and an Italian priest held separately by Muslim gunmen in the south.