111.  Serb troops began shelling the town of Lodja, just outside this western Kosovo city, about dawn Saturday.

112.  Shala lives in Velika Krusa, on the main road between the western Kosovo cities of Pec and Prizren.

113.  Riot police dispersed a crowd of youths Tuesday as an uneasy calm settled over this western Iranian city following days of violence over a meeting of reformist students.

114.  Scorching heat has caused severe water shortages in the western Saudi Arabian cities of Jiddah and Mecca, where water service has been limited to two hours a day.

115.  Serb troops began shelling the town of Lodja, just outside this western Kosovo city, about dawn Saturday, and the attacks continued until midday.

116.  Severe water shortages in the Western cities of Jiddah and Mecca because of scorching heat are expected to ease soon, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

117.  Several elevated sections of the Hanshin Expressway connecting the western cities of Osaka and Kobe keeled over as their columns collapsed.

118.  Several elevated sections of Hanshin Expressway connecting the western cities of Osaka and Kobe plunged or doubled over as their columns collapsed.

119.  Tatyana Seregina had a varicose vein operation in this western Russian city two years ago, but the surgeon cut a thigh artery instead of the afflicted vein.

120.  Some in the Turkish community say that the blaze in the western Dutch city may have been started by racists or by Kurds.