61.   Delegates at the UN population conference raced against the clock on Monday to finalise agreement on a far-reaching plan to slow world birth rates.

62.   Delegates on Friday reached a broad consensus on the disputed issue of abortion which has dogged the UN population conference, with the Vatican giving a guarded welcome.

63.   Discussions had been deadlocked since IMF director general Michel Camdessus visited Cairo on the sidelines of the UN world population conference.

64.   Efforts to reach a compromise on abortion have run into trouble at the UN population conference and host nation Egypt is starting to lose patience, delegates said Wednesday.

65.   Following her remarks, in an interview with the Berlin Tageszeitung, she was last week recalled from the German delegation to the Cairo population conference.

66.   The pope has been campaigning for months to get changes made to a draft resolution to be put to an upcoming UN population conference in Cairo.

67.   The population conference has drawn fire from several Moslem countries and groups as well as the Vatican.

68.   The UN population conference has taken up the fight against the traditional practice of female circumcision, which leaves two million young girls scarred for life each year.

69.   The UN population conference next week is expected to sharpen public awareness rather than come up with concrete solutions to the crisis confronting the planet, experts say.

70.   The UN population conference prepared Tuesday to adopt a far-reaching plan to curb world birthrates after eight days of gruelling debate on abortion and human sexuality.