51.   Haiti and Russia established diplomatic ties on Sunday.

52.   High-level negotiators from South and North Korea ended four days of talks Saturday, reaffirming their earlier commitment to improving ties on the divided Korean Peninsula.

53.   Home-field is an unusually large advantage in soccer, where teams usually play to win at home and try for ties on the road.

54.   If Wolves and West Brom tie on points, Wolves will go through on superior goal difference.

55.   In his first meeting with a top foreign dignitary, acting Premier Sergei Kiriyenko discussed bilateral economic and political ties on Tuesday with visiting Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini.

56.   Intimidation and creating tension are not exactly the most constructive way to go about putting ties on the right track.

57.   Italy, banking on the surprising Davide Sanguinetti, goes up against the Black brothers of Zimbabwe in a Davis Cup quarterfinal tie on clay in this Tuscan city.

58.   Juventus played to a scoreless tie on the road with Parma on Sunday night.

59.   Japan, which has yet to conclude a peace treaty with Russia, has conditioned that matter and closer economic ties on progress over the territorial issue.

60.   Kilcoyne -- oddly the only man in the trading room in a tie on Wednesday -- unfolds a portable stand that props up Marsh at his desk.