61.   Protesters threw stones at police, broke windows and burned cars and at least three public buses.

62.   Protestors have taken to the streets in recent weeks to oppose the high cost of living and hikes in public bus fares.

63.   Public buses or Jeep taxis are cheap but infrequent and time-consuming.

64.   Public buses stop running and mohajir-dominated areas in central and western Karachi are mostly deserted.

65.   Police described the area as tense and said young men set up burning tire barricades and torched one public bus Monday morning.

66.   A bomb on a public bus injured at least eight people Friday in a Beijing shopping district.

67.   A passing public bus and a minibus caught fire and a Kenya Red Cross worker said at least eight passengers died in the inferno.

68.   A man armed with an assault rifle and hand grenades boarded a public bus near Salonica Friday, taking its driver and passengers hostage, police said.

69.   A dispute has arisen, however, about a public bus service that runs through rebel territory.

70.   A provincial governor has banned smoking in government offices and public buses and threatened to transfer repeated offenders out of the province.