31.   He awaits death by hanging after receiving a death sentence from a high court earlier this month.

32.   He and the other eight activists were hanged after being convicted of murdering four prominent members of their own ethnic minority, the Ogoni.

33.   A court sentenced all four to hang after finding them guilty of murdering three people and stealing their cars, according to the spokesman quoted in the official press.

34.   A former head of the anti-narcotic bureau in northeastern Iran was hanged after being convicted of drug trafficking, a newspaper reported Saturday.

35.   A nine-year-old girl hanged herself after attempting to emulate an actress doing the same on television, police said here Sunday.

36.   A special court on Monday sentenced five Ogoni rights leader to death by hanging after finding them guilty of murder.

37.   According to relatives the man became obsessed with hanging himself after his wife left him last year.

38.   At its gleaming, mirrored headquarters on the Seine river, a giant poster of star player Zinedine Zidane was still hanging after the disastrous game Tuesday.

39.   Judicial officials said Ludovic appeared to have hanged himself after killing his parents.

40.   Libyan television reported earlier that six military officers had been shot and two civilians hanged after a court Wednesday confirmed death sentences for spying for the United States.