1.   New highways have been cut along the Mediterranean.

2.   The Salinas River overflowed Friday morning, cutting some highways in Monterey County.

3.   Fighting between factions cuts major highway.

4.   Homes were destroyed, towns isolated and major highways cut as bushfires raged across New South Wales Christmas day.

5.   Last week a parallel transcontinental highway was also cut.

6.   Schoolchildren stayed home, while union workers cut key highways around the country and in the capital, Buenos Aires.

7.   With German attacks on the Remagen bridgehead slackening, U.S. soldiers push out their lines and cut the highway between Cologne and Frankfurt.

8.   Highways were cut and rail services disrupted between France and northern Italy, and flooding reported on roads in central Switzerland.

9.   A second day of snow and rain storms caused havoc on the roads in Israel as floods cut the highway between Tel Aviv and Haifa, the authorities said.