51.   The floods also killed thousands of people and destroyed thousands of homes, according to government accounts and aid officials.

52.   The day after the courthouse bombing, arsonists set fire to an Iranian cultural center in Lahore, injuring no one but destroying thousands of books.

53.   The disease has destroyed thousands of acres of Southern California vines and spread north at the end of last year.

54.   Though testing has not confirmed any sign of the disease elsewhere, mainland European countries have destroyed thousands of animals imported from Britain before the export ban took effect.

55.   Two strong tremors rocked northwestern Greece on Wednesday, four days after a powerful earthquake destroyed thousands of homes.

56.   Two strong tremors rocked northwestern Greece on Wednesday, four days after a powerful earthquake destroyed thousands of homes and left people homeless in many villages and towns.

57.   U.S. federal authorities have charged Arthur Andersen with obstructing justice by destroying thousands of documents and deleting computer files about its audit of Enron.

58.   Fires have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest and scrubland in Italy, civil defence services said Thursday.

59.   Heavy rains this year have destroyed thousands of acres of farmland across Ethiopia.

60.   At least two thirds of crops in northern Afghanistan are under threat from swarms of locusts that have already destroyed thousands of hectares, the United Nations said Monday.