1.   Shirzai said more than a dozen clerics, tribal leaders and former military commanders arrived in this southwestern Pakistan city from southern Afghanistan in recent days.

2.   The case shows how life is changing in Southwestern cities like Albuquerque, where seemingly unstoppable growth meets a limited water supply.

3.   The Muslim authorities urged NATO on Sunday to take over Mostar from the European Union to avert more violence between Bosnian Croats and Muslims in this divided southwestern city.

4.   These are not the bat species that live in southwestern U.S. cities, including Austin.

5.   Paramilitary police patrolled the dusty streets of Quetta, Pakistan on Sunday after riots between rival ethnic groups in the southwestern city.

6.   Other Southwestern cities followed, including Albuquerque, El Paso and Las Vegas.

7.   A bomb heavily damaged the City Hall of this southwestern city shortly before midnight Saturday, hours after the mayor, Premier Alain Juppe, had left for Paris.

8.   A bomb heavily damaged the City Hall of this southwestern city shortly before midnight and just hours after the mayor, Premier Alain Juppe, had left for Paris.

9.   A flood alert was called Sunday in the southwestern cities of Opole and Kedzierzyn-Kozle following heavy rains, but water receded in regions flooded a day earlier.

10.   A roof and a wall collapsed Wednesday at a technical high school near this southwestern city, killing one person and injuring eight others.