51.   Australia is interested in using the Global Hawk to patrol its northern coast.

52.   Dr. Jaques Stolero at Nahariya Hospital along the northern coast, said the man was from France.

53.   Environmental activists occupied a drilling site off the northern Dutch coast on Tuesday to protest planned test drills for natural gas.

54.   Five others were injured in the gunbattle on Yapen island in the northern coast of the province, said the local police spokesman, Maj. Zulkifli.

55.   Finland has joined the United States and Norway in demanding an explanation for a tremor off the northern Russian coast near a nuclear weapons site.

56.   Forecasters had expected the storm to hit only the northern coast of the Dominican Republic, but Georges changed course on Tuesday and headed straight for the capital.

57.   Fishing by civilians, banned for the last four years off the northern coast, resumed as part of the truce.

58.   Greenpeace activists Tuesday occupied a drilling site off the northern Dutch coast to protest planned test drills for natural gas.

59.   Guerrilla chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, in a letter to Ms. Kumaratunga last week, said the government must also remove curbs on fishing off the northern coast.

60.   Guerrilla chief, Vellupillai Prabhakaran, in a message over the rebel radio Friday, said the government must also remove curbs on Tamils fishing off the northern coast.