In April, a Virginia Tech student, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and himself in the deadliest campus shooting in United States history.
An explosive decompression 12 minutes into its flight led to a crash killing 520 passengers and crew in the deadliest single aircraft accident in history.
At 11 a.m., a suicide car bomber detonated explosives that ripped into the convoy, killing Ms. Smedinghoff and four other Americans — a civilian and three soldiers — in the deadliest day for Americans in Afghanistan this year.
Doctors were testing for cholera, typhoid and other illnesses in the deadliest outbreak of disease since a January earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An explosion ripped through a police bus on the edge of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens in the deadliest attack in months in the northwestern city.
CAIRO — Gunmen ambushed a United Nations peacekeeping team on Saturday in Sudan's western region of Darfur, killing 7 and wounding 17 in the deadliest single attack on the international force in Sudan.
At least 59 people are dead and 527 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
ANKARA, Turkey -- Two bombs went off at a peace rally in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Saturday, killing at least 95 people and wounding 246 in the deadliest attacks in Turkey in years.
Fond of the aliases Ahmed Garbaya, Samir Salwwan and Sa-id, Mr. Izz-al-Din was indicted in November 1985 for his role in planning and participating in the deadly hijacking.
Ms. Olson, 62, served seven years — half her sentence — after pleading guilty to placing pipe bombs under Los Angeles Police Department patrol cars and participating in the deadly robbery of a bank near Sacramento.
