1.   Attorney General Janet Reno offered him political asylum in the United States after Bahamian authorities refused to hear his claim and prepared to send him home.

2.   Bahamian authorities say they want to question the Kimeses about the disappearance of a Middle Eastern banker, Syed Bilal Ahmed, who had befriended the Kimeses.

3.   Bahamian authorities said only two deaths could be verified and that several dozen others had been already been hospitalized and treated for dehydration and kidney failure.

4.   Bahamian authorities discontinued the hurricane warning for the Turks and Caicos islands and a hurricane watch in the central Bahamas.

5.   Bahamian authorities recovered the bodies of one other man and two women.

6.   Bahamian authorities regard Rey as an investor with residence and work permits.

7.   Both U.S. and Bahamian authorities have reported an upsurge this year in detentions of Cubans and Haitians trying to illegally enter the United States.

8.   Cubas also planned to ask Bahamian authorities to allow them to stay in that country or give them enough time to secure visas to another.

9.   He said the State Department was confident that Bahamian authorities would carefully consider any claims for protection and ensure that no bona fide refugee is returned to Cuba.

10.   Prosecutor Michael Barnett said the court had to question a man who claimed bankruptcy but had persuaded Bahamian authorities that he had some means at his disposal.