61.   Controversy has erupted in the Philippines over the hanging of Filipina maid Flor Contemplacion in Singapore a month ago for a double murder.

62.   Controversy has erupted in Zimbabwe surrounding claims by the opposition that a woman was decapitated last weekend in front of her two daughters.

63.   The US ambassador to Beijing, Stapleton Roy, left the post at the same time as the Taiwan controversy erupted.

64.   The TV signal controversy erupted just as officials from two African teams took steps to quell the row over alleged racism in the judging.

65.   Washington, for its part, seems to have no choice but to support Aristide and has avoided publicly criticizing him since the controversy erupted around Beaubrun.

66.   Police confirmed that residents in the southern city of Zamboanga were arming themselves since controversy erupted over the peace deal signed last week.

67.   The controversy erupted in August when Netanyahu announced he was lifting a four-year-old freeze on settlement construction.

68.   The controversy erupted on the first day of a summit also dominated by Commonwealth efforts to save nine Nigerian activists from the gallows.

69.   The controversy erupted as Seoul and Tokyo grappled with the problem of how to deal with a request for food aid from North Korea.