41.   In Paris metro and bus drivers will strike for the third day running Thursday, disrupting life in the capital and its region.

42.   In the northern city of Quiaca, jobless people staged symbolic crucifixions for a second day running, demanding work and social benefits.

43.   Indian and Pakistani troops traded small arms fire on Monday for the fourth day running, but there were no reports of any casualties.

44.   Inmates in two jails on the island of Crete also continued a protest on Sunday for the third day running.

45.   Israeli helicopters attacked Hezbollah strongholds in the Shiite Moslem suburbs of Beirut on Friday for the second day running, Lebanese military sources said.

46.   A vast cloud of black smoke gushed from three burning oil storage tanks at a refinery in western Grozny which was bombed for the second day running Friday.

47.   A regular meeting of the two sides failed to take place for the second day running, although a meeting was planned Thursday, Russian General Anatoly Romanov said.

48.   Agassi hardly worked up a sweat in his all-white pirate disguise on a centre-court drenched by sun for the fourth day running.

49.   Alexander Cejka kept up the pressure in the Austrian Open on Saturday to lead for the third day running.

50.   Ahead of the ceasefire, areas near Aden airport were shelled Monday for the second day running and at least eight people had been killed.