31.   In a village across the Neelum River, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a friend clad in white baggy pants waves back.

32.   In Arab Salim, and in dozens of other villages across the southern swath of the country, hostilities often are the norm, not the aberration.

33.   In villages across India, people turn out in the thousands carrying flowers to receive bodies of soldiers killed in battle.

34.   Israel retaliated with air attacks and artillery bombardment of villages across from an Israeli-occupied border enclave in the south.

35.   Israel retaliated with fresh air attacks and artillery bombardment of villages across from an Israeli-occupied border enclave in the south.

36.   Israeli troops and allied militiamen of the South Lebanon Army militia later fired artillery at a string of villages across from the occupation zone.

37.   It faces a North Korean village across the border.

38.   Local elections in thousands of villages across Nepal will be held next month.

39.   Meanwhile, Information Minister Musa Ulqini said villages across the border in Kosovo were on fire and the sky glowed red, with heavy movement by Serb tanks.

40.   Money will also be spent on rebuilding homes destroyed during the quake, which devastated villages across the Baglan region.