41.   The Saudi monarch, who has curtailed his official engagements after suffering a stroke in November, personally went to the airport to welcome Chirac on Saturday.

42.   To protect them, he wants to keep the children away from official engagements as long as possible, to let them develop in a private atmosphere.

43.   This trait extended to some of her public duties too, stumping through an official engagement showing the barest flicker of interest.

44.   It extended to some of her public duties too, with tales of how she would stump through an official engagement showing the barest flicker of interest.

45.   It says she sometimes drinks vodka to steady herself before official engagements.

46.   The foreign secretary would have no official engagements in Israel because of national mourning, a spokesman indicated.

47.   The meeting with the emir was one of several official engagements during the visit that began on Friday evening.