31.   Boris Becker was granted a divorce Monday, a day after the three-time Wimbledon champion and his wife reached a custody settlement.

32.   Earl Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, will on Wednesday be granted a divorce from his estranged wife, an aide said Tuesday.

33.   Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has been granted a divorce and is now free to marry his mistress.

34.   Greek legislation allows an automatic divorce to be granted to couples who have been legally separated for four years.

35.   Ireland grants first divorce.

36.   It will then be for the court Registrar to certify that the divorce should be granted after satisfying him or herself that all the papers are in order.

37.   Jackson, the sister of Michael Jackson, was granted her divorce Tuesday in Clark County Family Court.

38.   Judge Samuel Arias Arzeno, who granted the divorce Friday, said Ross was not present in the Santo Domingo court.

39.   Nonetheless, she could not be completely written off, political scientist Tom Lodge said Wednesday, a day after the divorce was granted.

40.   No one else had ever spent so much time in an Israeli prison for refusing to grant a divorce.