1.   Fighting, mainly between the government and UNITA, has killed a half-million Angolans and left millions more threatened by starvation and disease.

2.   It has killed a half-million Angolans in the formerly prosperous nation and left millions more threatened by starvation and disease.

3.   It was a sweet moment for Turks suffering a deep economic crisis which has brought massive layoffs in the past year and left millions on the poverty line.

4.   It was a sweet moment for Turks suffering a deep economic crisis that has brought massive layoffs in the past year and left millions in near-poverty.

5.   The war has killed a half-million Angolans and left millions more threatened by disease and starvation in the once-rich country.

6.   Their wishes were for an end to the Asian economic crisis, which has caused a recession in Singapore and left millions elsewhere in dire poverty.

7.   War has killed a half million Angolans and left millions more maimed, homeless and threatened by disease and starvation.

8.   The resultant bloody civil war has killed more than a million people and left millions of others either displaced internally or forced to flee to neighbouring countries.