21.   Authorities said the bomb, hidden in a crate of vegetables, exploded at a market near Kouba, in the southern outskirts of Algiers.

22.   Croatian military sources said they were caused by rockets fired by Serb forces located close to the southern outskirts of the capital.

23.   Croatian military sources said the rockets hitting Zagreb were fired by Serb forces located close to the southern outskirts of the capital.

24.   Dozens of government soldiers in pick-up trucks raced to the scene of the fighting on the southern outskirts of the city.

25.   Each day, the Taliban lob rockets into the southern outskirts of the city.

26.   Firefighters extinguished a large forest fire on the southern outskirts of Canberra, the national capital.

27.   For several months there has been a deadly stalemate on the southern outskirts of Kabul.

28.   Government forces marched toward rebel-held territory Sunday near the southern outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

29.   Government troops and rival Taliban soldiers waged a fierce artillery duel on the southern outskirts of the shattered Afghan capital Thursday.

30.   He explained that an unspecified number of rebels, hidden among crowds of refugees, had moved into Freetown from the southern outskirts of the city.