21.  Najib said the huge number of applicants seeking to enrol in public universities had far outstripped the available places.

22.  On the number of places available to SPM holders in Form Six, Najib said he would announce it later as a decision was still being made.

23.  Both teams are struggling in the nine-nation South American zone group to earn one of the four available places for the World Cup finals in France.

24.  The US, at the bottom of Pool A, now play-off with ninth place overall, the top place available to them.

25.  It added that the problem was exacerbated by a lack of computerisation with staff being left to depend on an unreliable manual card index of available places.