(9/06)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shopkeepers and homeowners in Baghdad cleared rubble and looked for bodies on Friday, a day after a series of explosions killed 67 people and devastated homes and a bazaar just before nightfall.

(8/06)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers killed seven people in an attack on a Pakistan embassy convoy on Monday, the military said, hours after a suspected rebel front threatened to bomb civilians in the capital and an air raid killed dozens.

(5/06)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers killed 17 sailors on Thursday in the worst naval battle since a 2002 truce halted two decades of civil war, and 50 rebels were believed to have died, a top Navy source said.

(5/05)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed at least 67 Iraqis on Friday in escalating violence that has cast doubts over the new government's ability to defeat insurgents.

(9/03)

RIYADH (Reuters) - A fire killed 67 prisoners when it swept through a jail near the Saudi capital Riyadh Monday, but officials said it was too early to say what caused the blaze, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.

(8/02)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A massive wall of mud and rock unleashed by heavy rains slammed into villages in southwest China, burying 67 people in the second deadly landslide to strike the area this week, witnesses and state media said on Friday.