1.   A libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific, if you are not on the receiving end.

2.   There are several unusual things about this libel trial.

3.   During the libel trial, Haaretz called on Ben Gal to testify as a supporting witness.

4.   Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt, who triumphed over a Holocaust denier in a British libel trial this year, endorses the decision.

5.   For another thing, a libel trial in England is incredibly expensive.

6.   He has told journalists that he would testify in the libel trial, but it is unclear whether either side will risk calling him.

7.   He pointed to testimony he gave in a Halcion-related libel trial in London earlier this year.

8.   Shoen was contacted during a recess in a libel trial, which began Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

9.   Peter Davis was the last witness in a sensational two-way libel trial pitting British billionaire Richard Branson against GTECH chairman Guy Snowden.

10.   A Cairo criminal court ordered a newspaper Saturday to stop publishing accusations against a deputy prime minister during the libel trial of four of its journalists.