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Hospital officials in northwestern Iraq have told TIME that the death toll from Tuesday's blasts in Qahataniya may exceed 300, making the multiple suicide bombings the deadliest terrorist operation in the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein. One hospital is saying that there are at least 500 bodies and that 375 people are injured. That report, however, cannot yet be verified. The only previous occasion when the toll from concerted attacks has exceeded 200 was last November, when six car-bombs in Baghdad's Sadr City killed 215 people. If the toll in the Qataniya incident grows...
...Directors of summer action films know how to get a PG-13: show all the fighting you would in an R-rated film, but don't show the toll it takes on the loser. Punches are fine, but no closeups of broken jaws; throw a guy off a rooftop, but don't show him landing impaled on an obelisk. Rush Hour 3 observes these niceties while twitting another MPAA rule: no four-letter words. In an early scene where Carter is interrogating a French-speaking thug through an interpreter, he gets exasperated and shouts: "You tell this piece...
...storms have been unusually fierce. Four monsoon depressions, double the usual number, have caused the worst flooding in memory in parts of Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Nearly 800 have died and upwards of 20 million have been forced from their homes; aid agencies are warning that the death toll could rise because the scale of the disaster has overwhelmed efforts to reach stranded villagers with food, drinking water and medicine to combat outbreaks of malaria and dengue fever. Waters were receding in some areas, but forecasters say more downpours...
...take several days to figure out how many people died in Wednesday's collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis - the official toll has hit five, but nobody expects it to stay there. Between 20 and 30 people are still missing, and while some of them may be lying in hospitals, unconscious and unidentified, plenty of cars are still submerged in the Mississippi River. Anyone trapped inside - and there are such people - is no longer alive. So recovery crews are picking their way carefully around the twisted steel and broken concrete that could shift without warning in the muddy...
...Although the floods have affected more people than have suffered in many previous years, the death toll of 700 remains comparatively low - in 1998, 4,185 died; last year 2,704. were killed. Relief experts attribute this year's lower toll to improved planning and communications that allowed most people to escape before the waters rose this year. "Because of early warning systems and government preparations, many villages were evacuated," says Gu Qinghui, regional disaster management delegate for the Red Cross...