1.   Associate editor Seth Kessler says evaluations are independent and companies that win favorable ratings are barred from quoting Guide reports in advertising.

2.   Hundley did not return phone calls, but the senior Fish and Wildlife Service official said the report was quoted accurately.

3.   It quoted news media reports and then suggested the name of a GOP expert for comment.

4.   Reuters and Agence France Presse quoted reports that pamphlets left at the scene of the attack appeared to link it to the Islamic Group.

5.   Quoting a report by the Amman Chamber of Commerce, Al-Hayat said that figure represented only a small fraction of trade between Jordan and other countries.

6.   Quoting a report by the Washington Post, state-owned Israel television said the man always identified by law as C. was Carmi Gilon.

7.   Quoting intelligence reports, he said their terrorist activities would extend outside Muslim-dominated areas of the Philippines and into Christian cities, including Manila.

8.   A fire at a chemical plant killed at least two people in the southern Andhra Pradesh state on Tuesday, police said quoting initial reports.

9.   Authorities in south China on Wednesday executed eight people accused of murder, rape, robbery and assault, the Portuguese news agency LUSA said, quoting official reports.

10.   Engineers said the aircraft was operating normally when it went down, the magazine quoted the report as saying.