11.   Military talks in Macedonia all but collapsed over the weekend, and Monday were downgraded to low level officials.NATO had promised to intensify its air strikes.

12.   Parts of a first-floor ceiling have collapsed over the last two years, ruining original hand-stenciled walls and damaging historical paintings.

13.   Syrian-Israeli talks collapsed over whether Israel would be allowed to keep lookout stations on the Golan Heights to offer protection from a possible Syrian attack.

14.   That agreement was not reached, collapsing over sovereignty in Jerusalem.

15.   The first crisis arrived on schedule Thursday when the talks nearly collapsed over nothing more than a lack of communication.

16.   The girls crack up in another fit of merriment, hanging onto one another and collapsing over desk tops.

17.   The talks reportedly collapsed over what role El Paso Chairman William Wise would have played in a combined company.

18.   The talks collapsed over issues like mining rights, marketing contracts and investment guarantees, De Beers said.

19.   They also pointed out that countless other Bosnian cease-fires had collapsed over the years of the war.

20.   Three days later, driving to a Cambridge conference, he collapsed over the steering wheel and died of a heart attack.