1.   Aid workers say areas that were heavily bombed now have high rates of birth defects, sterility and mental retardation.

2.   Aid workers say the village had no advance warning of the floods.

3.   Charity workers say these reforms will not help the poor.

4.   She has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, kidney problems and malnutrition, health workers say.

5.   Some workers are saying that they were intimidated into accepting the pay cuts, with threats of job losses.

6.   The workers said the campaign was attracting bad publicity for their company and putting their livelihoods at risk.

7.   Refugee workers said such action was a violation of medical ethics.

8.   The workers said they would not end the strike until their demands were met.

9.   Forestry workers say joyriders who steal cars and set them alight in isolated woodland risk causing a devastating forest fire.