1.   No one was really surprised when news first broke last January of his voluntary admission to a drugs rehabilitation unit.

2.   Since the news broke, hundreds of people have called with messages of support.

3.   When news broke, he seemed to have already planned his response.

4.   The news broke that the Prime Minister had resigned.

5.   The news broke after something of a lull in the abundant reporting of incidents from the various scenes of fighting.

6.   There was nothing about the arrest of Theo Sykes but that might be because the news had broken too late.

7.   But, last week, news broke that contacts were under way to break the deadlock.

8.   And in November when the news broke that Chubais had accepted a large cash advance on a book about privatization, he lost his title as minister of finance.

9.   And in football-crazy Dallas, the news broke just days before a crucial playoff game for the defending Super Bowl champion Cowboys.

10.   And when news of the Enron bankruptcy broke, he said, people became even more protective of their own savings and investments.