1.   Expatriate business people, who fled Jakarta by the thousands after riots and looting, have begun to return to the city on flights from Singapore.

2.   That China is executing thousands after beating confessions out of them for crimes most of the world considers minor.

3.   Okinawans began taking to the streets by the thousands after the rape.

4.   Serbs demonstrated by the tens of thousands after the Paris signing and are threatening a mass exodus from their suburbs if the plan is not changed.

5.   The ethnic Greek community in Turkey has dwindled to a few thousand after massive exchanges of populations following World War I.

6.   The pro-separatist leader was leading a procession of thousands after returning from the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

7.   Aum claims to have expanded its following in Russia to tens of thousands after the break up of the former Soviet Union.

8.   Rock- and mudslides killed three people and injured thousands after heavy rains battered Nicaragua and El Salvador this weekend, the Red Cross said Sunday.