1.   A man telephones a family in the evening, asking for the parents as though he knows them.

2.   The man telephoned the property owner in California to ask when he had decided to build a house on the land.

3.   According to a joke making the rounds, a man telephoned to speak to the Labor leader, and Mandelson was busy so he talked to Blair.

4.   Before the blasts a man telephones a coded IRA warning.

5.   Last week, a man telephoned Voronina, asking her to pick up groceries sent by her mother from a village.

6.   Young men climbed up telephone poles to get a better view.

7.   A lottery spokesman said the man telephoned to explain why he failed to show up in Tel Aviv after picking the winning numbers in his first attempt.

8.   A man telephoned the national airline Biman in Jessore to say there was a bomb on the plane, newspapers said.

9.   A man telephoned police to say there was a bomb inside the package.

10.   Earlier, a Spanish-speaking man had telephoned the venue claiming a bomb would go off there mid-afternoon.