1.   In Islamabad, as in Delhi two weeks ago, people were dancing in the streets, letting off firecrackers and handing out round ladoos, traditional sweets.

2.   These include experts in lacquerware, traditional wooden dolls, ceramics, baskets made of strips of maple, cherry-bark containers and traditional sweets.

3.   Cracking open a finger-sized stick of the dark chocolate bar reveals a vein of white fat where other candies conceal butterscotch, caramel or other traditional sweets.

4.   He tasted dates, locally grown strawberries and traditional Arab sweets.

5.   Relatives said they had been on their way to a bakery to buy traditional sweets for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

6.   Shows included Thai chess, cockfighting and plays staged by several schools, along with demonstrations of traditional Thai massage and instruction on making traditional sweets.

7.   The queen of Morocco offered traditional sweets from her country which lay side by side with French cakes and desserts from the world over.