(9/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The bound bodies of dozens more torture victims were found in Baghdad in the past day, officials said on Friday, fuelling anarchic sectarian anger that a U.S. general said could lead to civil war.

(8/06)

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The deaths caused by Tropical Storm Prapiroon in south China rose to 48 on Saturday and 15 people remain missing, the official Xinhua news agency said, but the storm was weakening as it moved inland.

(7/06)

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 48 people died in rainstorms and floods as Typhoon Bilis scythed across southeast China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

(5/06)

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The death toll in northern Thailand's worst floods in 60 years, caused by a rare climatic factor, rose to 48 on Thursday with dozens still missing as rescuers slogged through mud and debris for bodies.

(11/03)

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Forty-eight miners were killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in China's eastern province of Jiangxi, state media said Friday, in the latest in a string of mine accidents that have taken thousands of lives this year.

(8/02)

KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 48 people, most of them women and children who were hacked to death, have been killed in fighting in northeastern Congo involving rebels, tribal militias and the Ugandan army, U.N. officials said on Friday.

(3/00)

ALKHAZUROVO, Russia (AP) -- Rebel fighters broke through Russian military lines and seized a village in southern Chechnya after fighting that killed and wounded dozens of federal soldiers, officials said today.