41.   A Filipino accused of murdering an American couple was beheaded in the Saudi capital Riyadh Monday, the Interior Ministry said.

42.   A judge refused prosecution requests Friday to gag the news media and postpone the trial of a wealthy white American couple charged with killing a black Caribbean boatman.

43.   A judge later declared her eligible for adoption, and she was taken in by an American couple who believed her natural parents were dead.

44.   A Muslim extremist group threatened Wednesday to kill an American missionary couple, saying it is no longer interested in negotiations.

45.   A recreational dive boat company will be charged over the disappearance of American couple Thomas and Eileen Lonergan, a Queensland state cabinet minister announced Sunday.

46.   A lawyer for the American couple, Robert Bezdek, said the children had serious problems at home, including drug problems.

47.   A U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said an American couple also was killed.

48.   A yearlong hostage crisis involving an American missionary couple came to a bloody end Friday.

49.   A top Pentagon official says U.S. and Philippine forces are getting closer to finding the American couple.

50.   A small but violent Muslim extremist group, the Abu Sayyaf, is holding an American couple and a Filipino nurse on the southern island of Basilan.