1.   Passengers said Captain Rume Mwiru and crewmen accepted bribes to allow people without tickets to board the ship at the western port that gave the ferry its name.

2.   -- A regular container freight service will be inaugurated next week between Shanghai, China, and the quake-ravaged western Japanese port city of Kobe.

3.   A contingent of U.S. Marines flew in Sunday to help the victims of a devastating earthquake in this western port city, setting up tents in city parks.

4.   A reconstruction of that remarkable little ship is taking shape on the wharves of Bristol, the western port from which Cabot set out.

5.   A single barricade continued to block traffic in the western port city of La Rochelle, state radio France Info reported.

6.   An Albanian man was killed and five police officers were slightly injured in an early morning drug raid near the western port city of Patras, police said.

7.   Another bomb exploded near the center of the western port city of Oran, wounding one person and causing major damage.

8.   As the summit wound down, police in the western Swedish port city braced for more of the rioting that started Thursday when the EU leaders met with Bush.

9.   Biran Koti Kostri was executed in the western port city of Jiddah.

10.   Buca is a suburb of the Western industrial port city Izmir, a gateway to many resorts and historical sites along the Aegean coast.