101.   The number of confirmed or suspected bird flu cases has not risen since Saturday.

102.   Transactions in the French franc, European Union currencies and emerging markets currencies have risen dramatically since the last survey, the Fed said.

103.   World oil prices have risen since the government made an oil pact with Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to cut production.

104.   Floods hit Duesseldorf and upriver tributary regions earlier in the week, before water levels subsided a little, only to rise once more since Tuesday following heavy rain.

105.   Former BSE executive director B.R. Mayya said share prices had been rising since May in response to favourable economic and political factors.

106.   It is exports, not household consumption, that have risen since the end of the recession, and job cuts continue to occur, he said.

107.   But tensions have risen since, with at least seven people dying in clashes either between supporters of the political foes or between demonstrators and the security forces.

108.   Consumer groups in Austria and France have noted evidence of price rises since the euro cash changeover with complaints pouring in from angry shoppers reporting higher prices.

109.   The tension has been rising since the end of the summer when an invitation to the Asian Games in Hiroshima was made to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.

110.   The UN human rights mission in Rwanda said in a report last Friday that the killing of Tutsis had risen since the return of the refugees.