(2/06)

MANILA (Reuters) - Seventy-nine people were killed in a stampede at a stadium in Manila on Saturday as they scrambled to get tickets for a popular Philippine television game show, the government and witnesses said.

(11/05)

CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - At least 79 people died in two separate overnight bus accidents in the rain-ravaged southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, officials said on Saturday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives killed 77 people and reduced two crowded Shi'ite mosques to rubble during Friday prayers in a northeastern Iraq town, deepening the country's sectarian conflict.