1.   Another villager, Hassan Khan reported bombing around Khost on Saturday, particularly hill areas of Tangi, and urged the Americans to stop.

2.   Chris Collier, chief executive of the Cumbria Tourist Board, said plans to reopen some hill areas to hikers have been delayed.

3.   The authorities are also hopeful of providing local people with jobs, thereby initiating a long sting peace in the hill areas.

4.   They live largely in the north and east and in the tea-growing hill areas of central Sri Lanka.

5.   Heavy fighting has opposed government and Serb forces over the past three weeks in the Majevica hills area.

6.   Election commission officials said the voting passed off without incident in other hill district areas which went to the polls on Thursday.

7.   The quota system has pitted lower caste Hindus living in the plains of Uttar Pradesh against the mainly upper caste Hindus living in the hill areas of the state.

8.   The condemned trio were trucked from the court to the execution ground in a remote hill area.