1.   Kazakhstan officials said the explosion showered a desolate region of this vast Central Asian land with toxic heptile rocket fuel.

2.   Or he may have slipped away days ago and melted into the desolate region along the Pakistani border.

3.   Egyptian forces have harassed Sudanese residents of a desolate region along the Red Sea claimed by both Egypt and Sudan, a daily newspaper reported Thursday.

4.   Hundreds of those expelled were stuck at a squalid camp in a desolate region on the Egyptian-Libyan border.

5.   The Kolyma camp is located in a desolate region of northern Russia.

6.   The telescope will stand in the desolate Karoo region.

7.   The trail matches a route once used to provide diptheria serum to distant settlers in this desolate arctic region.