11.   He went down without being hit and later said he heard a pop.

12.   Kendrick fell to the ground face down after being hit by several Kansas State linemen and remained that way while medical personnel treated him for several minutes.

13.   The pollution was blamed on a dry, dusty monsoon, with industrial and construction sites being hardest hit.

14.   Two people were killed and seven injured Sunday when a pedestrian overpass collapsed after being hit by a truck overloaded with metal beams, police said.

15.   Two people were killed and seven injured Sunday when a pedestrian overpass collapsed after being hit by an overloaded truck, police said.

16.   The escalation of the crisis in France came after figures showed that both domestic consumption and exports of French beef products were being hit by the scare over BSE.

17.   The new tax, which is expected to hit small companies hard, would be politically difficult to implement, according to Murashima.