31.   The men were hanged Wednesday in a Cairo prison after President Hosni Mubarak turned down pleas to commute their sentences.

32.   The report said two other men were hanged, but it was unclear if they had died.

33.   The three men will be hanged once their sentences have been ratified by the top Islamic cleric, the Grand Mufti, a procedure that is routine.

34.   Two Syrian men were hanged in public for killing a pregnant woman and her two young daughters in late March, according to a newspaper report Tuesday.

35.   Two young men were hanged in front of him and their stomachs slashed open with a sword.

36.   Two Iranian men were hanged in Kuwait on Sunday, the first executions ever for drug smuggling in this small Gulf state, a Kuwaiti official said.

37.   Five men have been hanged in public in northwestern Iran for gang-raping a young boy who committed suicide following the attack, a newspaper reported Thursday.

38.   In January, a man was hanged in the northern city of Kaduna after being found guilty by an Islamic court of murder.

39.   A Jordanian man was hanged on Sunday in Amman after being sentenced to death for the murder of an army officer, security officials said here.

40.   A man was hanged Saturday for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old child.