1.   Afghan officials said Friday that the surrender of Taliban holdouts in northern Helmand province was continuing slowly.

2.   But the village, in northern Kunduz province, had suffered like many others, at the hands of the former Taliban regime.

3.   He ran an English school and a charity in the northern Kivu province.

4.   In the northern three provinces controlled by Kurds under international protection, the United Nations will distribute food and medicine itself.

5.   Lake Tung Ting in northern Hunan province is very famous for its shrimp.

6.   Muhammad said al-Qaida members and Taliban leaders had been living in or near his town in northern Helmand province until last month.

7.   My own wanderings were mostly under pale blue skies full of towering cumulus clouds along the Xalbal and Gavilan rivers in northern Quiche province.

8.   The dispute threatens to end the attempt by Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders to achieve permanent peace in the northern British province.

9.   The Greeks fear that Macedonia has designs on a northern Greek province that is also called Macedonia.

10.   The Mohajirs claim they have since been discriminated against by other ethnic groups and the central government, which is dominated by residents of northern Punjab province.