31.   Death rates among indigenous Australians are up to four times higher than for the Australian population as a whole, a report published here Wednesday said.

32.   Earlier press reports published Wednesday had put the toll at three.

33.   New and severe outbreaks of coral bleaching in French Polynesia could signal a major environmental tragedy, a Greenpeace report published here Wednesday said.

34.   Newspaper reports published Wednesday speculated that Takemura and Foreign Minister Yohei Kono would probably to remain in office, and only a few cabinet members would be replaced.

35.   Often the cannabis crop was reserved and paid for in advance by traffickers who fetch it directly from the farms, said the report published on Tuesday.

36.   Plans for waste incinerators and landfills in southern Mediterranean countries pose a hazard to public health and the environment, a Greenpeace report published here Wednesday said.

37.   The Chinese government on Tuesday vehemently denied a report published in the United States claiming that Beijing had sold medium-range missiles to Pakistan.

38.   The earl Monday denied another report published in the News of the World last month that he was separating from his wife.

39.   The inquest report published Wednesday after a six-month investigation said Banda and Tembo had together ordered the murder of four cabinet ministers.

40.   The German pharmaceuticals and chemicals giant was confirming a report to that effect published in the Wednesday edition of Financial Times Deutschland.