51.   A break in one of the major undersea cables linking Asian telecommunications systems disrupted Internet service in Thailand Thursday, slowing access to e-mail and the World Wide Web.

52.   A federal judge Thursday lifted an order forbidding a work slowdown by United Airlines mechanics, brushing aside a company warning that the move would disrupt service.

53.   A series of strikes and other protests have seriously disrupted Olympic service since last year.

54.   A surprise strike Thursday disrupted train service in the northern suburbs of Paris, making it hard for passengers to get to Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.

55.   A passenger train jumped the rails in south Wales Wednesday, injuring six people on board and damaging track and disrupting service.

56.   Also on Sunday, police defused a bomb near a telecommunication facility at Eravur near Batticaloa, with enough explosive power to disrupt telephone services in the city.

57.   And the German Railway said train service was disrupted between the eastern German cities of Halle and Magdeburg, and Dresden and Leipzig.

58.   Authorities said they might take the passengers to Penzance, England, by ferry, but the fog was disrupting ferry services early Saturday.

59.   But a key sigalling box was badly damaged, disrupting train services from Scotland to London and throughout northern England.

60.   Buses and subways were paralyzed in many cities including Marseille, Toulouse and Lyon, and train service was disrupted.