71.   Police spokeswoman Linda Menuhin said the taxi was carrying a passenger on a road near the old border between Israel and the West Bank when the driver was shot.

72.   Palestinian officials said Israel had blocked roads near the Jewish settlements of Morag and Netzanim and have halted joint patrols with their forces.

73.   Palestinians said Abdullah Qarakra was shot and killed after he threw stones at a military jeep on a main road near his West Bank village of Sinjil Tuesday.

74.   Protesters staged a sit-in on a road near at the Neckarwestheim power plant in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, briefly delaying part of the shipment.

75.   A British soldier died after his vehicle flipped on a gravel road near an army training area in southwestern Alberta.

76.   A recent plan to build a road near the Pyramids was scratched after the United Nations warned pollution and vibrations from the traffic would cause further damage.

77.   A roadside bomb exploded as an Israeli military jeep traveled on a road near Erez on Thursday morning, sparking a gunbattle that left one Palestinian dead.

78.   A plane crashed on a road near the airport in this southern Spanish city, new reports said Wednesday.

79.   A truck parked off a road near an archaeological site that recently had been looted of Indian artifacts aroused the suspicion of a state wildlife officer.

80.   A Swedish soldier was killed and a colleague injured when their vehicle skidded off a road near Doboj in the north.