31.   The game was part of the annual Teresa Herrera tournament staged in this northwestern city.

32.   The government on Friday surrounded Andulo and Mbanza Congo, a northwestern city that the rebels occupied last week, state radio reported, quoting an unidentified army official.

33.   The heavy pounding of artillery echoed through the fields near this northwestern Cambodian city, evidence of resistance faced by coup leader Hun Sen outside of the capital.

34.   The man held police at bay much of Thursday, standing on a downtown sidewalk in the northwestern city waving a samurai-style sword.

35.   The Turkish consul general in the northwestern Iranian city is Ufuk Ozsancak.

36.   Three weeks ago, seven officials of the state-run railroad ministry boarded a train in a northwestern city after interviewing hundreds of jobseekers.

37.   Ukrainian swimmer Oleg Lisogor took a pair of events Monday in the first of two days of FINA World Cup competition in this northwestern Italian city.

38.   Two houses were destroyed and three police officers injured by a suspected gas explosion in this northwestern English city, police said Sunday.

39.   Four police officers were injured overnight in clashes during an annual punk gathering in this northwestern city, police said Saturday.

40.   German police said Friday they had discovered a time-bomb at a port near this northwestern city but ruled out a political motive behind the incident.