(8/06)

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Forty-seven people were killed and 30 injured on Sunday when a water storage tank they were sitting on collapsed in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, a government official said.

(7/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Explosives stored in a Chinese farmer's home blew up in the early hours of Friday, killing 47 people and wounding dozens, Xinhua news agency said.

(6/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - About 45 Taliban insurgents and two U.S.-led coalition soldiers have been killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan and suspected rebels kidnapped five Afghan health workers in the east, officials said on Sunday.

(4/06)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A bus carrying a marriage party plunged into a river in India's northeastern state of Assam on Thursday, killing at least 47 people, police said.

(8/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes launched strikes in western Iraq on Tuesday which the U.S. military said killed an al Qaeda militant named Abu Islam among other fighters, and which a hospital source said killed at least 47 people.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Heavy rain and landslides have killed at least 47 people across China and storms are snarling transport and flooding reservoirs, domestic media reported on Monday.

(7/05)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan forces killed 18 Taliban militants in central Afghanistan after a series of attacks in which 29 other people, about half of them guerrillas, died, a provincial governor said on Saturday.

(6/05)

BEIJING (Reuters) - China evacuated 100,000 people from a southern city to escape the surging water in one of three provinces where heavy rains have triggered landslides and floods killing at least 47 people.

(4/05)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali soldiers recovered 47 more bodies of Maoists killed in a raid on an army base two days ago, taking the toll of rebels to 97 in the deadliest clash in the country in five months, an army official said on Saturday.

(3/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck a Shi'ite mosque during a funeral in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens more in a fresh attack against Iraq's newly empowered majority.

(9/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge car bomb ripped through a crowded market near a Baghdad police headquarters Tuesday, killing 47 people and wounding more than 110 in the deadliest single attack in Iraq's capital in six months.

(2/04)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb killed 47 people at an army recruitment center in Baghdad Wednesday, taking the death toll to about 100 in two attacks on Iraqis working with the U.S. occupation forces within 24 hours.

(11/02)

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - A fire ripped through a packed basement nightclub in downtown Caracas early Sunday, killing 47 people, most of them suffocated by smoke in what was one of the deadliest blazes in Venezuela's recent history.

(7/01)

BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) - At least 47 people were killed when illegally stored explosives blew up in a northwestern Chinese village, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.