Madagascar cyclone death toll rises to 40, water, power still out

In its latest update Friday, the National Office for Risk and Disaster Management (BNRGC) said 40 people had been killed and 427 people injured, as one aid worker spoke of "apocalyptic" scenes on the Indian Ocean island. Six people were still missing and the cyclone had affected 273,417 people -- or 74,393 households, the BNRGC added. After visiting the island's second-largest city of Toamasina, which bore the brunt of Gezani's 250-kilometre-per-hour (155-mile-per-hour) winds, the World Food Programme's...