41.   Sudan has effectively banned the independent daily Akhir Khabr after repeated warnings to tone down articles the government considered divisive and risque.

42.   The delegation met a select group of lower-house congressmen behind closed doors in the seaside Legislative Palace on Saturday, the independent daily said.

43.   The Daily News, the most popular newspaper in the country and the only independent daily, has perhaps suffered the most.

44.   The government proposes to make up the difference in the years with a budget surplus, Al-Qabas independent daily reported Sunday.

45.   The government will lift temporarily controversial customs taxes on imported newsprint after charges by independent dailies that the dues were aimed at curbing press freedom.

46.   The independent daily said it was the largest group execution ever in Zhuhai.

47.   The lifting of the ban means that three leading independent dailies shut down last week, can resume publishing.

48.   The Married Persons Equality Bill eradicates the power given husbands over the property of wives, according to a report Tuesday in The Namibian newspaper, an independent daily.

49.   The Namibian, an independent daily, reported Wednesday that the casualties occurred during heavy shelling by rebels in a battle to seize control of the town of Moba.

50.   The owners, Modus Publications, have shut down an independent daily and a Sunday newspaper in the past year on grounds they were losing money.