(6/06)

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian rescue teams scoured the high seas off Sumatra island on Friday for 39 people after a ferry sank in a storm, a senior navy official said.

(12/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A fire swept through a hospital in northeast China killing at least 39 patients and forcing many to jump from windows or climb down knotted bedsheets to escape, state media said on Friday.

(7/05)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Rwandan rebels burned 39 people alive when they torched a village in eastern Congo in what some locals said was punishment for supporting United Nations peacekeepers, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Monday.

(10/04)

GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed two militants Saturday in an air strike in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the number of Palestinians Israel has killed in one of its deadliest Gaza raids to 39.

(7/04)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Hot weather killed 39 people in two days last week in the muggy southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, near Hong Kong, the Beijing Youth Daily reported on Sunday.

(3/04)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The death toll from a suspected gas blast in northern Russia rose to 39, including seven children, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Wednesday.

(2/04)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomb ripped through a packed Moscow underground train in the early rush-hour on Friday, killing at least 39 passengers and injuring more than 100.

(10/03)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. general pointed an early finger of suspicion at foreign fighters for four suicide bombings that killed 35 people and wounded 230 Monday in Baghdad's bloodiest day since Saddam Hussein was overthrown.

(7/02)

MANILA (Reuters) - At least 39 people were killed and more feared dead when landslides caused by a powerful typhoon destroyed houses on the western Pacific island of Chuuk in Micronesia, an official there said on Wednesday.

(4/02)

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Flash floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 39 people in the northwestern Afghan province of Faryab, the United Nations said on Friday.