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The stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair earlier this month has claimed the life of yet another person, bringing the death toll to seven.

The 32-year-old man accused of devastating twin attacks in Norway now maintains that two cells of extremists collaborated with him, court officials said here Monday as they ordered solitary confinement for the suspect. The police also significantly reduced the confirmed death toll in the Friday attacks to 76 instead of 93 — still one of the worst mass killings in postwar Europe.

Officials in Mumbai, India, have corrected the death toll from Wednesday's blasts, saying that 18 people were killed.

The death toll from a plane crash in northwestern Iran has risen to 77, news agencies in the country reported Monday.

Searing gas avalanched down an Indonesian volcano with a thunderous roar, torching houses and trees and incinerating villagers as they fled Mount Merapi's worst eruption in a century. Dozens of bodies found Friday raised the death toll to 122.

The death toll from Typhoon Megi rose to 11 on Saturday as it cut a deadly path into Asia, triggering mudslides and leaving tourists stranded in Taiwan.

The government has had difficulties getting aid to the affected area, and at times receiving accurate information. On Sunday, officials reduced the number of dead to 730, saying that earlier reports on Sunday, reaching as high at 1,100, were not credible.

The houses lie vacant with their triangular rooftops peeking through the brown, murky water. Abandoned cars dot impassable highways, while rotting furniture floats through city streets.

Rescuers spread out Sunday to scour neighborhoods of splintered homes and twisted debris in Mississippi, a day after storms that spawned multiple tornadoes sliced through the state and killed 10 people, including three children.

Tibetan monks prayed over hundreds of bodies Friday at a makeshift morgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the town of Jiegu in  China, killing  least 1,144.