41.   Three members of opposition parties were sentenced to prison Thursday after being convicted of involvement in a plot to kill President Geidar Aliev, a news agency reported.

42.   Three Ukrainians were sentenced to prison for illegally digging up ancient graves on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

43.   They were convicted and sentenced to prison the following year.

44.   Three Danes were sentenced to prison Friday for stealing paintings by Rembrandt and Giovanni Bellini from a museum two years ago.

45.   Three years ago, another ex-Cabinet minister was sentenced to prison for accepting bribes from a steel-maker.

46.   Twelve people are arrested in Tetovo and nine are sentenced to prison for conspiracy and related charges.

47.   Two farmers have been sentenced to prison for kidnapping girls and forcing them to sell flowers on the streets of Shenzhen and other Chinese cities.

48.   Two livestock breeders in north-central Shanxi Province have been sentenced to prison for slaughtering thousands of head of a protected species of gazelle.

49.   Under Turkish law, people sentenced to prison terms longer than a year are barred from politics, the civil service and legal practice for life.

50.   Five members of the outlawed Moslem Brotherhood were acquitted and eight sentenced to prison by an Egyptian military court here Thursday.