Stampede Kills 200 Hindu Pilgrims
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More than 200 people were killed in a stampede Tuesday after angry pilgrims set fire to shops when they learned several worshipers had been crushed to death inside a Hindu temple, police said.
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A ring which got 200 people from the Middle East into the US via Peru  has been smashed, officials say.
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Fourteen pilgrims from India and Pakistan are ambushed and shot dead by insurgents, reports from Iraq say.
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At least 20 people have been killed and several dozen injured in a collision between two passenger trains in the northern Indian state of Punjab.
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Two bombs rigged to bicycles exploded in throngs of Muslims as they left Friday prayers at a mosque in this western Indian city, killing 31 people and wounding 100.
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GUANGZHOU/CHENZHOU, China  - A stampede at Guangzhou railway station killed one person when frustrated passengers rushed to board trains after days of cancellations because of fierce cold and snow, police confirmed on Sunday.
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As many as 300 Hindu pilgrims, including  women and children, may have been crushed or burned to death in  a stampede and fire near a temple in western India Tuesday, the  district's top official said. A fire broke out in roadside  stalls when more than 150,000 people were on an annual  pilgrimage to the popular Mandher Devi temple, on a hilltop  near Wai, about 160 miles southeast of Bombay, witnesses said.
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Torrential rain and thunderstorms have killed 228 people and injured about 200 others in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, provincial health minister Syed Sardar Ahmed said Sunday.
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: At least seventeen Muslim pilgrims died and 38 others were injured when a bus they were traveling plummeted into a deep ravine in eastern Pakistan, police said today.
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About 200 people died after flash floods  and landslides devastated several coastal towns and left  swathes of the northern Philippines under water, officials said  on Tuesday.
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Rescue workers began at daybreak on Wednesday the grisly task of searching through debris from a stampede and fire that killed nearly 300 people at a temple in western India, and police said the toll could rise.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims reached the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Monday, the vanguard of a throng expected to peak at more than 2 million people by Tuesday, the climax of the haj pilgrimage.
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A banned Indian Islamic students' group was behind a deadly attack on a mosque in western India two months ago that killed 31 people and wounded more than 100 on a Muslim festival day, a police official said Monday.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami killed at least 2,230 foreigners in the southern Thai province whose beaches include devastated Khao Lak, the provincial government said on Thursday.
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More than 300 Hindu pilgrims were trampled to death and 200 injured in a stampede at a religious festival in western India.
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More than 2,500 foreigners were reportedly killed or missing in Sunday's tsunamis triggered by a strong earthquake in the India n Ocean.
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At least 31 people, mostly worshippers   at weekly Islamic prayers, were killed and up to 75 injured in   a series of explosions in a Muslim-majority town in western   India on Friday, police said.