1.   But if tensions mount and interest rates rise, the cost of non-interest-bearing deposits would rise in parallel.

2.   Tension mounts as temperatures soar on one of the hottest days of the year.

3.   His comments at a press conference in Brussels came as tensions mount between his government and German trade unions over plans to cut spending.

4.   Tension mounts as people still await final election results to decide whether Alberto Fujimori, the president, will be forced to a second-round election.

5.   Whoopi asks for the envelope and fiddles with the seal as tension mounts.

6.   The shaky government alliance between Ranariddh and Hun Sen has been on the rocks as political tensions mount in the run-up to elections next year.

7.   The two rivals regularly exchange fire in Kashmir, but incidents have become more frequent as tensions mount, claiming casualties on both sides.

8.   The impasse comes as tensions mount in southern Lebanon where Israeli pilots bombed positions held by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement in response to a recent attack.