1.   In a dacha outside Moscow, representatives from the United States, Russia and the European Union met to assess the latest diplomatic developments.

2.   Last week, House and Senate Republican leaders met to assess what compromise, if any, could be reached.

3.   Officials are meeting to assess how tourism will be affected.

4.   The paper proposes that Western and Russian experts meet to assess the threats that face the Continent and how to deal with them by diplomatic and other means.

5.   A unit of the Swiss federal office for police affairs which deals with hostage-taking and blackmail met to assess the situation.

6.   Despite tight supplies in world oil markets, OPEC is expected to forego any increase in crude production when its members meet Sunday to assess market conditions.

7.   The U.N. health agency convened a two day meeting to assess progress in tackling in the parasite by cleaning up water supplies and other control programs.

8.   Officials in Sarajevo were meeting to assess the reports from Gorazde, along with all the other reports from across Bosnia, a UN official said.

9.   The experts had met to assess new British evidence suggesting a possible link between BSE, known as mad cow disease, and its fatal human equivalent, CJD.

10.   The Greenpeace operation comes as environment ministers from North Sea countries meet to assess the pollution problem in the area.