41.   Police said teams of rescuers, including police and soldiers along with local people, had stepped up search efforts.

42.   Poor weather complicated search efforts on Thursday.

43.   A Coast Guard team of about a dozen was coordinating the search effort from San Juan.

44.   A final air and search effort got under way Sunday.

45.   Aftershocks kept rattling the piles of debris, halting search efforts as people scattered in panic.

46.   An officer at the Kuala Lumpur-based Regional Piracy Center also said that several countries had been enlisted in the search effort.

47.   Angry relatives yelled at officials and demanded that they step up the search effort.

48.   As search efforts shifted to recovering bodies, relief workers set up cities of white burlap tents for residents whose homes were heavily damaged or destroyed.

49.   Bad weather has hampered search efforts for two French mountaineers missing for about two weeks in the Pakistani Himalayas, a police official said Monday.

50.   Bad weather has made usual search efforts virtually impossible.