31.   Thousands of soccer fans filled the center of town after the Belgium-Sweden match in the King Baudouin Stadium on the northern outskirts of Brussels.

32.   U.S. jets had returned to attacks at the capital overnight for the first time since Sunday, striking the northern outskirts.

33.   Fifty people were injured Thursday in a collision between a passenger train and an empty freight train on the northern outskirts of London, the BBC reported.

34.   Fifty people were injured Thursday, the BBC reported, in a collision between a passenger train and an empty freight train on the northern outskirts of London.

35.   Hutu residents of neighborhoods on the northern outskirts of Bujumbura refused to go to their workplaces Monday for fear of ethnic violence in the city center.

36.   In Ikorodu, on the northern outskirts, youths burned tyres and tried to block roads, but no violence was reported from elsewhere in the city.

37.   Fighting broke out Sunday in the northern outskirts of the Chechen capital Grozny, Chechen rebel spokesman Movladi Udugov was quoted as saying.

38.   The strike, which began Thursday, affects mostly workers at the headquarters of the company in Agidingbi, Ikeja, in the northern outskirts of Lagos.

39.   The bodies of the victims were taken to a government hospital mortuary in Ikeja, in the northern outskirts of Lagos, it said.

40.   The four policemen late Wednesday were ambushed by the robbers in Isolo district on the northern outskirts of the city, said Victor Chilaka.