41.   Other online services have said they are improving their networks.

42.   Private express services said they have experienced delays but they continue to make deliveries in the state.

43.   Quick news service said Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd., Daiwa Bank Ltd. and Nippon Credit Bank Ltd. responded to a Finance Ministry request to bail out Sanyo.

44.   Russia wants lower-quality wheat, though no date for the tender has been set, the news service said.

45.   Tellingly, the immigration service says it does not know how many asylum seekers it has in detention.

46.   The Czech intelligence service has not said how it knows the meeting took place, or what was said.

47.   The computer online service said it expects a wider second-quarter loss than previously forecast because of delays in shipping an updated version of its Internet software.

48.   The forest service said it was still studying the ruling to assess its impact.

49.   The existing on-line services said they have no objection to Microsoft entering the industry.

50.   The good news, the weather service said, is that the flood levels there are beginning to subside.