(12/06)

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - An elephant named "Osama bin Laden" that has killed 27 people in northeast India, has been shot dead, triggering protests by conservationists who say forestry officials had probably shot the wrong animal.

(9/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said it executed 27 "terrorists" in Baghdad on Wednesday after they were convicted of murder and rape.

(7/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb and several mortars ripped through central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 101 others, police sources said.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Two people were killed and nearly 200 injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday as opposition parties enforced a countrywide transport shutdown, police and witnesses said.

(6/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and U.S.-led foreign forces have killed 27 Taliban fighters in the latest clashes in the worst violence Afghanistan has seen since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, an army commander said on Monday.

(4/06)

RUTHERFORD, Tennessee (Reuters) - Tornadoes and violent spring thunderstorms in the central United States killed at least 27 people, splintering houses and tossing victims around like twigs, officials said on Monday.

(2/06)

LAGOS (Reuters) - Deadly protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad spread in Africa, killing 16 people in Nigeria on Saturday a day after claiming 11 lives in Libya.

(11/05)

KUT, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi troops in the south of the country have found the bodies of 27 people who had been tied up and shot, army sources said on Thursday.

(10/05)

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed a car into a Shi'ite mosque in central Iraq on Wednesday, bringing down part of the building and killing at least 26 worshippers celebrating the start of the holy month of Ramadan, police said.

(7/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle in a crowd of mostly children near U.S. troops in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 27 people and wounding at least 67, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

(5/05)

TUBA, Philippines (Reuters) - A bus overturned in a mountainous area of the northern Philippines on Wednesday, killing 27 people and injuring 17, police said.

(4/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A bus plunged off a mountain bridge in southwest China on Tuesday, killing 27 people, Xinhua news agency said.

(2/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two bus accidents killed 27 people and injured nearly 50 in China on Friday, the Xinhua news agency said.

(1/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents detonated a suicide truck bomb outside Australia's embassy in Baghdad Wednesday and hit Iraqi security targets with at least three car bombs, killing 26 people less than two weeks before Jan. 30 elections.

(9/04)

NAVARRE, Fla. (Reuters) - Rescue teams with dogs fanned out in house-to-house searches for victims and survivors and National Guard troops patrolled as the U.S. Gulf coast began a massive cleanup from Hurricane Ivan, which killed up to 27 people.

(3/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suspected al Qaeda-linked car bomb killed 27 people in the heart of Baghdad, but President Bush's administration vowed to stay in Iraq until its goal of democracy is achieved.

(1/04)

SKIKDA, Algeria (Reuters) - At least 27 workers died when a gas plant blew up at Algeria's largest refinery complex on the Mediterranean coast and brought its key oil and gas activities to a halt, officials said Tuesday.

(11/03)

NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber devastated an Italian military police base in the Iraqi town of Nassiriya Wednesday, killing at least 17 Italians and nine Iraqis.

(8/03)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Twenty-seven Chinese miners have been confirmed dead after a gas explosion, the fourth reported mine disaster in China in a week, tore through their coal pit, the State Administration of Work Safety said.

(2/03)

LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - The death toll in two days of bloody anti-government protests in Bolivia rose to 27 on Thursday as nine people, including looters, civilians and a nurse, were killed in clashes with security forces.

(1/02)

BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A bloody prison riot in a Brazilian Amazon town left 27 inmates dead, as gangs fought with knives and guns following a failed escape attempt, security officials said on Thursday.

(2/01)

WASHINGTON -- As Oregon reported that 27 terminally ill people used the state's assisted suicide law to end their lives last year, one of the state's senators urged the Bush administration Wednesday not to do anything that would thwart the unique statute.

(9/98)

MANILA -- Floods triggered by back-to-back typhoons have killed 27 people in the Philippines and forced thousands to flee their homes in a wide area on the main island of Luzon, officials said on Monday.