South Korea fire toll rises to 22
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At least 22 people have been killed and about 17 are missing in a fire at a warehouse in South Korea.
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BEIJING - The death toll from a massive gas explosion at a coal mine in the central Chinese province Henan has climbed to 122, with 26 people still missing, state-run media reported Tuesday.
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FALLUJAH: The US toll in the fight for Fallujah rose to 22 after it ran into pockets of fierce resistance yesterday as aid agencies pressed for access to the Iraqi city to take food and water to civilians trapped inside.
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Australia's deadliest bushfires for 22 years left nine people dead and dozens injured as firefighters fought to control blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.
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India News &gt; Guwahati, Oct 2 : At least 22 people, including women and children, were killed and over 100 injured when two simultaneous landmine blasts ripped through the busy railway station here and a crowded market place of this commercial town of
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The global death toll  from the Asian tsunami shot above 226,000 Wednesday after  Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of  thousands of people previously listed as missing.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - The largest U.S. radio station owner has agreed in principle to pay $22 million to victims of a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed more than 100 people, the latest in a string of settlements that total more than $70 million.
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A South Korean aid group claimed Wednesday that massive floods in North Korea last month left about 54,700 people dead or missing and some 2.5 million homeless. The figure is by far the highest toll reported from floods that hit the impoverished communist country in mid-July.
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The searing heat wave that scorched the East and Midwest for nearly a week finally showed signs of breaking on Thursday, leaving behind scattered power outages and at least 22 deaths.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban kidnappers shot dead a South Korean hostage and threatened to kill 22 others unless their demands were met by 2030 GMT (4.30 p.m. ET) on Wednesday, a Taliban spokesman said.
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The death toll from a powerful typhoon that cut across the northern Philippines rose to at least 28 with dozens of people missing in floods and landslides as schools and offices in Manila remained closed for a second day Friday.
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The casualty toll from a typhoon that has lashed South Korea and Japan this week has reached at least 18 dead or missing.
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The death toll from Typhoon Xangsane in the Philippines has neared 200,  as rescue workers reached remote areas where last week's massive storm sparked flash floods and landslides.
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The human toll from the earthquake-spawned tsunamis that swamped an epic swath of South Asia climbed to 26,000 dead yesterday, and with tens of thousands still missing is bound to soar even higher.
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The death toll in a helicopter crash near the Sierra Leone airport Sunday rose to 22, the majority of whom were Togo soccer fans, officials said Monday.
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At least seven people were killed and 22 injured on Friday after a bus exploded in flames in southern Nepal, police and local media said.
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The death toll from a series of major earthquakes striking Indonesia&#39;s Sumatra rose to 23 on Saturday, while officials tallied more than 15,000 collapsed or damaged buildings.