(8/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bombings and shootings killed up to 61 people in Iraq on Tuesday, including at least 26 soldiers, undermining the government's attempts to show it can suppress unremitting violence.

(2/06)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian rescue workers said on Friday they had given up hope of finding anyone else alive under the rubble of a Moscow market roof that collapsed after days of heavy snow, killing at least 61 people.

(1/06)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Troops and volunteers in Japan shoveled snow from roads and roofs on Sunday as the death toll from the country's heaviest snowfall on record rose to more than 60.

(7/05)

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a fuel truck killed at least 60 people near a crowded vegetable market in a town south of Baghdad on Saturday and al Qaeda warned of more violence in a bid to seize the Iraqi capital.

(8/03)

KABUL/NADI ALI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Sixty-one people were killed and dozens wounded in outbreaks of violence across Afghanistan in the troubled country's bloodiest 24 hours in more than a year, officials said Wednesday.

(12/02)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - As the death toll rose to 61, officials investigating Friday's devastating suicide attack on the pro-Russian government headquarters in Chechnya said on Sunday security around the building had been criminally lax.

(9/99)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- As rescue workers hacked slowly through mounds of rubble, the death toll from one of the worst quakes to hit Athens this century climbed past 60 today.