71.   In Luxembourg, several activists tried to block access to the embassy with padlocks and chained themselves to the gates.

72.   Pakistani police used teargas and truncheons against Islamic fundamentalist activists trying to prevent revellers from seeing in the New Year on a beach in Karachi, witnesses said Wednesday.

73.   Reports said the trouble began after BCL activists tried to enter the campus in a bid to wrest control of dormitory unions from the ICS.

74.   Suspected anti-nuclear activists tried early Friday to sabotage railway infrastructure near tracks used by trains carrying nuclear waste near this north German town, police said.

75.   The activists were trying to stage a sit-in outside parliament.

76.   The LTTE activist tried to escape arrest by trying to swallow a cyanide pill but a policeman forced it out of his mouth, the paper said.

77.   The nearly four-hour long clashes started when JP women activists tried to break the police cordon.