(10/06)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 42 people were killed and 28 injured when a packed bus plunged into a ravine in western Nepal on Saturday, police said.

GENEVA (Reuters) - An outbreak of plague has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 42 deaths reported among 626 suspected cases over the past 10 weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

(8/06)

HANOI (Reuters) - Flooding, landslides and lightning have killed 15 people and left one missing since Friday night in Vietnam, bringing the country's toll in a week of torrential rain to 42, reports said on Sunday.

(7/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite militiamen stormed through a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad on Sunday, shooting dozens in the city's bloodiest street killings yet and raising new fears Iraq is on the brink of sectarian civil war. Gunmen killed at least 42 people in the western Jihad district, Interior Ministry sources said, in a rampage likely to fuel calls for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to tackle powerful militias, blamed for much of the sectarian violence.

(5/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Forty-two dumped bodies have been found in different parts of Baghdad over the last 24 hours -- many of them shot, bound and showing signs of torture, police sources said on Wednesday.

(12/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas blast at a construction site in China's southwestern province of Sichuan has killed at least 42 people, state media said on Friday, the latest statistic in a grim series of workplace disasters.

(4/05)

LUSAKA (Reuters) - At least 42 high school students returning home in northern Zambia at the end of term were killed when their truck missed a curve and overturned, police said on Saturday.

(12/04)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali troops shot dead 22 Maoist rebels in gun battles across the west of the Himalayan country on Thursday, as violence spiraled a day after 20 soldiers were killed by the guerrillas.

(12/03)

ATLANTA (Reuters) - The flu is widespread in almost every U.S. state and the number of deaths due to pneumonia and influenza is now at an epidemic level, federal health officials said on Wednesday. These were the highest levels seen during the 2003-2004 flu season, which started about two months earlier than usual and has killed at least 42 children and an unknown number of adults.

(8/03)

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 22 children were killed and 20 others were feared dead after a road bridge across an inlet in western India collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles plummeting into the water.

(7/03)

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (Reuters) - Rescuers tugging at concrete slabs with bare hands sifted through the wreck of a Russian military hospital near Chechnya Saturday after a suicide attacker aboard a truck bomb killed at least 42 people.

(3/02)

HARARE (Reuters) - The death toll in Saturday's Zimbabwe rail crash has risen to 42, police said on Sunday, while the government blamed human error for the collision between a goods train and passenger train.

(1/02)

(AP) - A powerful earthquake toppled scores of buildings in central Turkey on Sunday, killing at least 42 people, injuring more than 150 and sending terrified residents running from their homes. Authorities said they did not expect the death toll to climb dramatically from the magnitude-6 temblor, which was far less powerful that two massive earthquakes that killed 18,000 people in the nation's west in 1999.

(9/00)

BEIJING (AP) -- Severe flooding and high winds brought by a tropical storm have left 42 people dead in North Korea and caused extensive damage to crops, a U.N. official said Friday.