41.   Foreigners witnessed a taxi driver being beaten by the Taliban Tuesday, apparently for the offense of driving three women passengers in his car.

42.   The Peugot automobile was carrying the head of airport security, a driver and a woman passenger, the newspaper This Day said.

43.   Women bus passengers would be checked more closely, the television said.

44.   Women passengers on previous ships have reported that crew and enforcers demanded sex or traded food and water for sexual favors, he said.

45.   Sources said some of the men were taxi drivers who carried women passengers not fully veiled by Taliban standards of Shariat or Islamic law.

46.   Tamil Tiger guerrillas ambushed a civilian bus in eastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing two police commandos and three women passengers, the military said.

47.   The fatalities were a French woman passenger and a Spanish man who worked for the railway, officials in Guadalajara province said.

48.   The Peugot automobile was carrying the head of airport security, a driver, a woman passenger and another person, the newspaper This Day said.