41.   Israeli soldiers on Monday sealed several West Bank villages as part of their hunt for Islamic militants who plotted two recent suicide bombings in Jerusalem.

42.   Lindgren has the same independent streak as Pippi, leaving her childhood village as a pregnant, unwed teen-ager and heading for Stockholm.

43.   Machine-gun fire shook the village as government troops advanced toward a sector still in rebel hands.

44.   Leaders of the party are traveling to towns and villages as part of a road show, he said.

45.   North Korean acceptance of the border village as a meeting site was surprising.

46.   Police had earlier wrongly identified the village as Aithiamala, which is in the same area.

47.   Refugees were streaming out of the villages as Russian forces moved in Wednesday to search for Chechen fighters trying to blend in with civilians.

48.   Powell had hoped for a cease-fire and an immediate Israeli military pullback from Palestinian cities and villages as President George W. Bush has demanded more than once.

49.   Prosecutors say that for several months Serbs looted, and torched Kosovo Albanian villages as part of wider plan to rid the area of its non-Serb inhabitants.

50.   Russian forces pushed ahead Thursday with their attacks on two southern Chechen villages as an offensive against separatist rebels went into its third day.