31.   An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a law which permits authorities to ban suspected soccer hooligans from travelling abroad to attend matches.

32.   And in an apparent retaliatory measure, Abkhazian authorities banned two trucks carrying food and medicine for Russian border guards from crossing into Abkhazia.

33.   Authorities also have banned students from carrying cellular telephones and pagers into examination halls to foil cheating.

34.   Authorities banned car traffic from downtown Prague Wednesday after smog levels went beyond accepted standards.

35.   Authorities banned carrying weapons or using fireworks and ordered businesses that sell or serve alcohol to close.

36.   Authorities banned private flights over Florence for Sunday morning, when an Easter ceremony that normally draws thousands of people takes place near the Duomo Cathedral.

37.   Authorities had earlier banned planned marches through the streets of the Ugandan capital.

38.   Authorities have banned demonstrations against an international conference of defense officials and top diplomats in Munich this weekend, a lawyer for the protesters said Thursday.

39.   Authorities have banned the printing of any more copies of a popular book on the need for political reform in China, a human rights group said Friday.

40.   Authorities here have banned beef and related products from other countries where the disease has been discovered.