111.   Prosecutors are investigating published reports that Volkswagen managers demanded and received bribes from suppliers in exchange for contracts.

112.   Prosecutors on Wednesday questioned a former Cabinet minister as they investigated reports that a former president has huge stashes of illegal political funds.

113.   Police and English soccer officials are investigating reports that England players may have damaged part of the plane bringing them home from Hong Kong Tuesday.

114.   Police are investigating a report that Kashmiri rebels have killed and buried four Western hostages they kidnapped nearly a year ago, an official said Wednesday.

115.   Police are investigating reports of a child prostitution racket involving foreign nationals, a newspaper reported Thursday.

116.   Police said someone fired several shotgun blasts at officers as they investigated reports that a vigilante mob had beaten up a man and set fire to his car.

117.   Police said they were investigating a report that an intoxicated officer fired several shots at a public housing project on St. Thomas early Tuesday.

118.   Police said they were investigating reports Tuesday evening of a suspicious substance in a central London building that houses studios of the British Broadcasting Corp.

119.   Police stormed the office of Rudolf Balaz, head of the Slovak Bishops Conference, investigating a report that a picture was being sold fraudulently.

120.   Phiri told the court he also had investigated reports Judge David Lewanika accepted free trips from the government, including one to an international soccer match.