1.   From the first convicts to the latest Asian newcomers, Sydney has been a city of immigrants.

2.   If and when Texas executes its first female convict since the Civil War, be prepared for an onslaught of condemnation from around the globe.

3.   Rwandan survivors had waited years for the tribunal, which has been troubled by mismanagement and corruption, to sentence its first convict.

4.   They had waited impatiently nearly four years for the tribunal, troubled by mismanagement and corruption, to sentence its first convict.

5.   They had waited nearly four years for the tribunal to sentence its first convict.

6.   Trinidad executed its first convict in five years, the first of nine men scheduled to be hanged.

7.   Trinidad executed its first convict in nearly five years Friday, the first of nine men scheduled to die by hanging.

8.   A man who pleaded guilty to molesting schoolgirls was to become the first convict to be shamed on Singapore television Friday night.

9.   They were executed at the Kaohsiung detention house -- the first foreign convicts to be put to death there.