41.   The Izvestia daily on Friday criticized Canadian media for allegedly running a smear campaign aimed at discrediting the judges who voted in favor of Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze.

42.   The Le Monde daily on Wednesday also said it had learned that Virenque had admitted to drug abuse.

43.   The Maariv daily on Friday published the results of a survey it conducted among the Hebron settlers.

44.   The public consortium published its results daily on the World Wide Web, giving Celera and other researchers full access to the government data as it was developed.

45.   The two countries have traded blame almost daily on the failure to reach agreement on implementing the OAU peace plan.

46.   The Yediot Ahronot daily on Monday published details of a Netanyahu-Arafat meeting held secretly in Gaza after midnight Sunday.

47.   The Yediot Ahronot daily on Friday quoted a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry document as saying that the United States was leaning toward imposing sanctions on Russia.

48.   The Yediot Ahronot daily on Monday published details of the Netanyahu-Arafat meeting held secretly in Gaza after midnight Sunday.

49.   In an interview published in a Polish daily on Tuesday, Putin, currently visiting Poland, said he was ready to invite the pope to visit.

50.   Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati told Iran News daily on Tuesday that Syria was also acting as a go-between to improve relations between Iran and Egypt.