To start off the week:
3000 in Bangladesh killed by storm:
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/19/bangladesh.cyclone/index.html[/url]
[QUOTE] PATUAKHALI, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Survivors of a storm that killed more than 3,000 people in the impoverished nation of Bangladesh grieved and buried their loved ones Monday as they waited for aid to arrive.

The number of dead killed from Cyclone Sidr -- now at 3,114 -- is expected to rise yet further as the South Asian nation continues to assess the damage.

The Bangladesh Red Crescent fears the death toll could be 5,000 -- perhaps even reaching as high as 10,000.

In the fishing village of Galachipa, in Patuakhali district, Dhalan Mridha was grieving for family members who died in the cyclone after ignoring an alert issued by authorities.

"Nothing is going to happen. That was our first thought and we went to bed. Just before midnight the winds came like hundreds of demons. Our small hut was swept away like a piece of paper, and we all ran for shelter," Mridha, a 45-year-old farm worker, told The Associated Press. (continues in link)[/QUOTE]

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]Thanks Steel, had a busy morning, [NEWS] thread is now stuck.[/COLOR]