71.   Soybeans futures prices rocketed higher Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade as a Midwestern cold spell threatened to damage more crops than previously thought.

72.   Syrian weathermen predicted that the cold spell would end Tuesday.

73.   The cold spell could continue until Wednesday, the National Meteorological Service reported Monday.

74.   The cold spell, with temperatures plunging well below freezing, caught many off guard after an unusually warm February.

75.   The ban aims to protect animals from the effects of a cold spell which has left much of the country under heavy snow, the ministry said.

76.   The cold spell has been well known to researchers, but its cause was a mystery.

77.   The prolonged cold spells led to fatigue.

78.   The unusually cold spell brought part of South Africa to a halt since the weekend, with at least five deaths blamed on the harsh conditions.

79.   The unusually cold spell has brought much of South Africa to a halt since the weekend.

80.   The weather office attributed the cold spell to an extreme high pressure system that penetrated Bangladesh from the neighboring Indian states of Bihar and West Bengal.