41.   This is grim news for a number of Japanese firms that have bet heavily on DVD.

42.   What grim news for competitors.

43.   While the deal may provide lower prices for consumers, it is grim news for Asian oil companies and oil-producing countries.

44.   Analysts had expected the recent stock market losses and signs of slow growth to hurt corporate sentiment, but few had expected such grim news.

45.   But his crew had to deliver grim news to the astronauts aboard the international space station.

46.   Friends and relatives who arrived at the airport to receive grim news of the crash were shielded from reporters in an attempt to spare them further agony.

47.   Grim news for Sunderland was that former Newcastle midfielder Lee Clark broke his leg during the game in an challenge by QPR midfelder Keith Rowland.

48.   He also faces grim news about Syria.

49.   He suffered the injury in a training action, landing awkwardly on his left foot, and an X-ray confirmed the grim news.

50.   In currencies, the dollar was steady against the yen, despite the grim economic news.