(10/06)

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops have killed 49 Taliban insurgents in two separate battles in southern Afghanistan, the defense ministry said on Monday.

(8/06)

LEXINGTON, Kentucky (Reuters) - A Comair jet crashed and burned in a Kentucky pasture on Sunday after a failed takeoff on a short runway, killing all but one of the 50 people aboard, authorities said.

(3/06)

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Nearly 50 people were killed in fierce fighting which erupted between pro-Taliban Islamist militants and Pakistani security forces in a tribal region near the Afghan border on Saturday, the military said.

(11/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Roadside bombs killed nearly a dozen people in Iraq on Monday, as U.S.-led forces launched the latest phase of an offensive, killing 37 insurgents near the Syrian border, in a bid to secure the nation for December polls.

(12/04)

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Forty-nine people, including four children, died when a bus plunged off a bridge into a river in Peru's northern jungle, police and bus company officials said on Monday.

(9/02)

KATHMANDU, Nepal (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Maoist rebels, who are fighting to topple Nepal's constitutional monarchy, attacked a police post in the east of the country and killed 49 police officers, a government minister said on Sunday.

(6/02)

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - At least 49 people have been killed, including seven children, in violence involving leftist guerrillas, far-right paramilitary outlaws and soldiers in Colombia, Colombian authorities said Sunday.

(9/99)

MOSCOW -- The second major explosion in the Russian capital in four days demolished a large apartment building today, killing at least 49 people. Officials said they were treating it as a terrorist attack.