1.   If and when the Post Office is privatised, will our postage stamps continue to bear a portrait of the monarch?

2.   In the background, a billboard bearing a portrait of Yasser Arafat calls on Palestinians to follow his leadership.

3.   Supporters of the king, waving flags and posters bearing his portrait, parade outside his residence in Kabul, Thursday.

4.   A wall poster bearing a portrait of Che Guevara invites participation in Basque Solidarity, a group that has sent volunteers to Cuba, Central America and Palestinian territories.

5.   Billboards dot the countryside bearing huge portraits of him standing in a lush wheatfield or striding purposefully in a business suit.

6.   Grieving family members, many with buttons bearing color portraits of their loved ones, dabbed red-rimmed eyes with tissues as speaker after speaker promised swift retribution.

7.   In a Kuwait City suburb, Amina Al-Kabsi touches her hand to her chest, near the pin bearing the portrait of her only son, Ahmed.

8.   The new bills, bearing portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton, were redesigned to thwart high-tech counterfeiters.

9.   The new image will be available for use by the Commonwealth countries whose coins still bear the portrait of the queen.