31.   Under Italian law, doctors must wait six hours before they can declare a patient brain dead, Dr. Paolo Malacarne said.

32.   Under the law, organs may be taken only from bodies that have been declared brain dead by two doctors.

33.   Ghonam was declared brain dead several days ago.

34.   He had been declared brain dead on Monday while on a life support machine.

35.   He suffered severe head injuries and was declared brain dead the following day.

36.   He was declared brain dead on Sunday night.

37.   English sidecar competitor Simon Prior was confirmed brain dead here on Monday by a Mannheim hospital spokesman.

38.   Two of the dead are Taiwanese, and a third woman from the island is listed as brain dead by doctors, officials in Taipei said.

39.   Italian boxer Fabrizio De Chiara was pronounced brain dead here on Sunday night, after collapsing in the ring in a deep coma during a bout on Saturday night.

40.   Jemayel had already been declared brain dead at Ramallah hospital on the West Bank on Tuesday, after sustaining serious wounds at Jneid prison in Nablus.