41.   However, thousands of miners remained off the job and a hunger strike at the nuclear plant near St. Petersburg broadened.

42.   Hundreds were killed by a cyclone, many others fled the destruction, and thousands remain missing a week after the storm struck.

43.   In Austria, thousands of tourists remained cut off by snow in the popular Tirol resort area with no respite in sight.

44.   In the Austrian province of Tyrol, thousands remained trapped at resorts by record snowfall, with some unable to leave for a fifth day.

45.   In the hour following the decision, thousands remained in the square in disbelief, unsure how to handle the disappointment, confetti drifting around their feet.

46.   In North Ossetia, the regional Emergency Situations Minister, Boris Dzgoyev, said thousands of people remained trapped in their villages.

47.   In the year since Albania collapsed into chaos, violence continues to wrack the country as thousands of weapons remain in the hands of citizens.

48.   In the Austrian province of Tyrol, thousands remained trapped by record snowfall, with some unable to leave for a fifth day.

49.   Last week, Amnesty International said thousands of people remain imprisoned in appalling, sometimes fatal, conditions in Burma and other human rights abuses continue.

50.   Meanwhile thousands of refugees remain caught between the Russian army and Chechen separatists holding the city centre.