51.   Under a broiling tropical sun, penitents flagellated themselves with bamboo whips Friday and were nailed to wooden crosses to re-enact the suffering and death of Jesus.

52.   Two Saturdays ago, Castro swooned in front of the microphones as he addressed a rally under the blazing tropical sun outside Havana.

53.   Under a blazing tropical sun earlier Thursday, Shipley reviewed an honor guard outside the colonial-style presidential palace before her meeting with Goh.

54.   Under a blazing tropical sun, Shipley reviewed an honor guard outside the colonial-style presidential palace before her meeting with Goh.

55.   Where the Raimundo Ceteno high school once stood, rescue workers were spreading ice over corpses of students to keep them from decomposing quickly in the tropical sun.

56.   Women at several polling stations held umbrellas to ward off the tropical sun and an occasional rain shower.

57.   The tropical sun has been up just a few hours but the tall, powerfully built American Special Forces veteran in camouflage fatigues is sweating like a thoroughbred.

58.   They were decomposing fast under the tropical sun, the entrails in plain view, the stench overpowering.

59.   The leaders arrived in four aircraft, landing in the tropical sun to be greeted by the colourfully dressed dancers from the neighbouring coastal town of Lae.