(5/06)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon slammed into south China on Thursday killing two children and forcing the evacuation of more than 630,000 people, Xinhua news agency said, while 99 Vietnamese fishermen were believed missing at sea.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 100 insurgents last week in the town of Ramadi in the rebel heartland of Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

(7/05)

MUSAYYIB, Iraq (Reuters) - Stricken townspeople swept away the wreckage of a fuel truck bomb that killed 98 people south of Baghdad and three more suicide car bombers hit the Iraqi capital on Sunday in a devastating new campaign.

(4/05)

AMAGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) - The confirmed death toll in Japan's worst rail accident in 40 years topped 100 on Thursday and was set to rise as rescue workers desperately tried to recover bodies still inside a crushed train car. Seven bodies were extracted from the wreckage overnight and on Thursday morning, bringing the official toll to 101.

(3/04)

KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan cabinet minister was killed in the western city of Herat on Sunday, provoking ferocious tank and gun battles in which the city's military commander said more than 100 people died.

(3/00)

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A speeding bus swerved to avoid a pothole and collided head-on with another bus Wednesday, killing at least 101 people in western Kenya, police said. The buses burst into flames in the afternoon accident, which injured 57 people, some seriously, about 140 miles northwest of Nairobi, near the tea-growing town of Kericho, said officer Daniel Musau.