11.   While the latest surge may also be a case of speculation, the steady drop in silver stockpiles in undeniable.

12.   With Morris competing for National League rookie of the year, the trade was starting to look like a Pirates swindle until this latest surge by Loaiza.

13.   A schoolboy was killed by a car-bomb and a village activist was decapitated by invaders in the latest surge of political violence, Algiers newspapers reported Tuesday.

14.   Each side blames the other for the latest surge in the violence.

15.   Eight Israelis and five Palestinians were killed over the past three days in the latest surge of violence.

16.   Fifty companies are listed in the Kuwait Stock Exchange and traders said the industrial and banking sectors were the leading performers in the latest surge of volume.

17.   Heavy rain and snow across northern Wisconsin and Minnesota last week are behind the latest surge.

18.   Hundreds of shells were fired in and out of the city on the second day of the latest surge in fighting.

19.   It was the latest surge of tension between Georgia and Russia over Abkhazia, which exercises de facto independence.

20.   It was the second consecutive day that Sankoh had been escorted from a prison cell to negotiations aimed at ending the latest surge of fighting to batter Freetown.