1.   Bush on Tuesday is expected to decide to award Taiwan a large arms package that will include naval destroyers, sub-hunting aircraft and Patriot anti-missile systems, officials said.

2.   Today it is the American naval destroyer Cole in the waters of Aden, Yemen, attacked and crippled by two men in a small motorized boat.

3.   Britain sent a naval destroyer and military helicopters to pick up Yerokhin, the ministry said.

4.   Last month, naval destroyers were deployed for the first time since the war chase away suspected spy ships, which fled to North Korean waters.

5.   Last month, Japanese naval destroyers fired on a pair of suspected spy ships, which Japan later claimed were North Korean.

6.   The British sent a naval destroyer and military helicopters to pick up Yerokhin, the ministry said.

7.   The naval destroyer HMCS Gatineau is also in the area.

8.   The naval destroyer HMCS Terra Nova was standing by.

9.   The USS John Young, an American naval destroyer, is currently docked at the Madras port in southern India on a refueling and restocking visit.