Up to 40 Reported Drowned in Accident in Iraq
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ZAKHU, Iraq  - Up to 40 people were swept away and  drowned as they tried to cross a swollen river in the far north  of Iraq Tuesday, families of the victims said.
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More than 50 people are dead and dozens are missing after Japan&#39;s deadliest storm in more than a decade caused flash floods that washed away cars and entire hillsides.
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BAGHDAD In one of the most horrific attacks here since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a pair of car bombs tore through a street celebration Thursday at the opening of a government-built sewer plant, killing 41 Iraqi civilians, at least 34 of them children
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Forty passengers died and 19 others were hurt when their overcrowded bus plunged 100 metres (330 feet) down a ravine in western Nepal.
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A British Royal Air Force transport plane crashed in central Iraq, and news reports here said that up to 15 service members might have died.
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The death toll in Thursday's Baghdad bombings rose to 202, police said, after more than 40 people died overnight following the worst sectarian attack since U.S. forces invaded Iraq in 2003.
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The mounting insurgency in Iraq has claimed the lives of more than 30 Iraqi civilians and security forces during the past two days.
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At least 40 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy rains on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores, and dozens more are still missing, officials said Saturday.
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At least eight people were killed after a wall collapsed at a building site at Dubai airport today. Workers said they saw up to 40 casualties being taken from the scene of the collapse, with some people reported to be trapped under the debris.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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LIMA, Peru  - Forty-nine people, including four  children, died when a bus plunged off a bridge into a river in  Peru's northern jungle, police and bus company officials said  on Monday.
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BAGHDAD: Iraq&#39;s US-backed government said yesterday that &quot;major neglect&quot; by its American-led military allies led to a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend.
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At least 110 people were killed across Iraq on Sunday in gun battles, car bombs and bombardments. The Iraqi Health Ministry said the worst casualties were in Baghdad, where 37 were killed, and in Tal Afar near the Syrian border where 51 people died.
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Iraqi police found 47 bodies around the   capital Baghdad in the past 24 hours, most of whom appeared to   have been the victims of sectarian violence, police said on   Saturday.
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At least 40 people were killed and 1,000 displaced when a dam collapsed near Gusau, capital of northern Nigerian Zamfara State due to torrential rains.
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Officials say at least 42 insurgents have been killed so far. Two US Marines were killed in a vehicle accident. The American and Iraqi forces are trying to take back the city -- from insurgents
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The death toll from the epic tsunami that rocked 11 countries rose to 40,000 people Tuesday, and food and supplies poured into the region, part of what the UN said