51.   A senior representative of the Kurdish Democratic Party, Sabri Darwish, and a number of his colleagues have been detained, the newspaper Farda said.

52.   A political reporter who covered the presidential campaign for The Sacramento Bee was fired for plagiarism and fabricating sources, the newspaper said in a column Wednesday.

53.   A popular Kuwaiti columnist has been sentenced to three months in prison for writings deemed insulting to public prosecutors, his newspaper said Monday.

54.   A powdery white substance in an envelope received by a New York Times reporter tested negative in a preliminary test for anthrax, the newspaper said Saturday.

55.   A suspected plot to kill Salman Rushdie forced the Danish government to cancel a visit by the threatened writer, newspapers said Thursday.

56.   A Norwegian photojournalist reported missing after an assignment in Cuba has been found safe in a Havana hospital, his newspaper said Tuesday.

57.   A taxi driver who hit a pedestrian and left him to die in an abandoned well has been executed in northeastern China, a newspaper said Wednesday.

58.   Abargil told police that after the attack, he tried to apologize as he drove had back to Milan, the newspapers said.

59.   A Ukrainian teen-ager who was shot by a city police chief two weeks ago has died of his wounds, a newspaper said Friday.

60.   A proposed law would bar all such sales in school and university stores and cooperatives, and smoking would be banned in all school buildings, the newspaper said.