(9/06)

SHAKHTINSK, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - A methane explosion tore through a coal mine belonging to Mittal Steel in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 41 people in the country's worst mining accident on record.

(7/06)

VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - At least 41 people were killed when an underground train ran off the tracks and overturned at high speed in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia on Monday, officials said.

(4/06)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan forces and coalition helicopter gunships attacked a suspected Taliban hide-out in southern Afghanistan, triggering a fierce battle that killed 41 militants, a provincial governor said Saturday.

(2/06)

KOHAT, Pakistan (Reuters) - Small-arms and rocket fire between Muslim sects killed four people in and around a Pakistani town after 36 people, mostly minority Shi'ites, died in a suicide bombing and other violence, officials said on Friday.

(12/05)

HANOI (Reuters) - Landslides triggered by prolonged rains in central Vietnam have killed nine road workers, taking the total death toll in the region in recent weeks to 41, officials said on Saturday.

(11/05)

BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi's government forces have killed 41 fighters from the last remaining rebel group and captured 50 over the past few weeks, an army spokesman said.

(8/05)

PUCALLPA, Peru (Reuters) - Some 500 police and volunteers slogged through a thick swamp on Wednesday to search for remaining bodies from a jet that crashed in Peru's northern jungle, killing 41 people.

(6/05)

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Attackers shot, hacked or burned to death at least 41 people in western Ivory Coast on Wednesday, the army said, sending hundreds fleeing and raising fears of revenge killings in a region where ethnic tensions run high.

(3/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Police found the bodies of 41 Iraqis beheaded or shot by insurgents at two sites in the Sunni heartland, the latest in a series of mass killings by guerrilla groups.

(2/05)

CILIMUS, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rescuers used shovels and their hands on Tuesday to dig bodies out of rubble from two Indonesian villages smashed by a landslide and the death toll of more than 40 was expected to rise, officials said.

(6/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombers killed 41 people in two strikes on Iraq's fledgling security forces Thursday, stepping up a bloody drive to sabotage plans for U.S.-led occupation to give way to Iraqi rule on June 30.

(5/04)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Ugandan rebels attacked a refugee camp, killing 41 people, abducting others, and burning down huts that left 7,000 homeless in the east African nation, a U.N. agency reported on Friday.

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces battled militia loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr near the holy city of Najaf Thursday, seizing the governor's mansion and killing 41 militia fighters in a lightning operation.

(12/03)

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 40 people aboard a packed commuter train near rebel Chechnya on Friday in what President Vladimir Putin called an attempt to destabilize Russia just before key polls.

(12/02)

SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Forty-one children have died of severe cold this month at camps for Afghan refugees on the border with Pakistan, an aid worker said on Sunday.

(9/02)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A food poisoning outbreak at a fast food restaurant killed 41 people and left hundreds needing hospital treatment on Saturday in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, state media said.

(7/99)

LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia (AP) -- In a dramatic upsurge in violence in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, Indonesian soldiers killed 41 people after a raid on a remote village, witnesses and human rights activists said today.

(4/99)

BOGOTA (Reuters) - An avalanche of mud and rocks killed at least 41 people -- many of them searching for bodies from a previous landslide -- in a town nestled into the Andean mountains of western Colombia, authorities said Friday.

(9/98)

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- More than 4,600 people have died this year in violence in Algeria, a human rights group said today amid reports of new attacks that claimed 41 lives. // The violence showed no signs of abating. Reports today said 41 people were killed in the past three days following President Liamine Zeroual's decision to cut short his term.