(7/06)

CLOVIS, California (Reuters) - The death toll from this week's brutal heat wave in California has reached at least 126, state officials said on Friday, although record high temperatures were finally easing.

(5/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it had killed 125 insurgents in an offensive in western Iraq that ended on Saturday but guerrillas struck again in Baghdad, assassinating a senior official and attacking police patrols.