11.   The Netherlands is bearing the downstream brunt of storms and flooding that ravaged parts of Germany, France and Belgium last week.

12.   The Sudanese interior minister warned the worst in floods that have ravaged parts of the country is not over yet as rising waters of the Nile threatened the capital.

13.   Flooding has already ravaged parts of Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana and Tennessee.

14.   A spate of forest fires were ravaging parts of northern Portugal Monday and threatened houses in several villages, firefighters said.

15.   Another fire had earlier ravaged parts of New Mexico near the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory.

16.   The proletariat, fast becoming an endangered species under the crippling demise of heavy industry that ravaged many parts of the country, exploded in outrage.

17.   Saro-Wiwa, an Ogoni activist, had accused oil giant Shell of ravaging parts of the Niger delta by reckless drilling for oil.