31.   President Vladimir Putin will take a brief vacation next week at a Siberian ski resort, the Kremlin press service said Saturday.

32.   The European Union wants a brief vacation from the furor over mad cow disease.

33.   Their last brief vacation was three years ago.

34.   Yeltsin, whose failing health has forced him to take frequent breaks from work, took a brief vacation in May at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

35.   He would also take a brief vacation next month in his country home at Latche in southwest France.

36.   Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee headed to the hills for a brief vacation Friday, assuaging concerns of an imminent invasion of neighbouring Pakistan.

37.   BBI had planned to build four hotels and a golf course on China Beach, once used for brief vacations by US servicemen during the war here.

38.   Russian President Vladimir Putin will take a brief vacation next week to ski in southern Siberia, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported Saturday.