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It's a grim milestone: On Tuesday residents of this small market town lined up to salute the funeral cortege of the 100th British soldier killed this year in Afghanistan. Complete Story...
A Chinese policeman who died after drinking too much at a banquet he was made to attend has been deemed a martyr who died in the line of duty, in an apparent attempt to meet his family's demands for compensation, a state-run newspaper said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired 20 senior prison officials, including the capital's prison chief, following a probe into the death of a jailed lawyer, officials said Friday.
World-class ice climber Guy Lacelle died Thursday when an avalanche swept him off a mountain in southwestern Montana.
A Romanian court has rejected the appeal of a British citizen convicted on manslaughter charges for causing a 2006 car accident that killed award-winning Romanian film director Cristian Nemescu.
An Ohio inmate fighting the state's second attempt to execute him will be limited to a simple argument, a federal judge said Wednesday: Does the state, having failed once, have the legal right to try again?
Condemned killer Kenneth Biros could become the first person in the country put to death with a single dose of an intravenous anesthetic instead of the usual — and faster-acting — three-drug process if his execution proceeds Tuesday.
China sentenced three more people to death Friday for murder and other crimes committed in riots in the western region of Xinjiang in July.
Government safety officials ordered a new recall announcement of two crib models following the death of a 1-year-old child.
A 26-year-old doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from a delivery salad laced with an overdose of blood pressure medication, prosecutors say. The findings fueled opposition fears that he was killed because of what he knew.
A breast-feeding mother accidentally smothered her four-week old child aboard a United Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Kuwait, a British tabloid reported Tuesday.
The father of a man who died trapped in a Utah County cave says the rescue workers who fought to save his son are now part of his family.
On the last day of his long, troubled life, Grover Cleveland Chapman packed a black duffel bag, washed out his coffee cup, put it in the dish rack and fetched his Smith & Wesson.
The Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed.
A Utah cave's narrow crevice that trapped and eventually killed a medical student will become his final resting place, and the dangerous cavern will be permanently sealed.
Victoria Rogers had originally planned to make an early stop the day after Thanksgiving last year at the Walmart store in Valley Stream on Long Island. Her last-minute decision against it might have saved her life.
A Russian prison official reportedly admitted Thursday that harsh prison conditions are partially to blame for the death last week of a lawyer being held in a Moscow detention center.
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is blaming low oxygen for the death of a coal miner at a west Alabama mine.
Police say a western Pennsylvania man told them he kicked his girlfriend's puppy to death because he was upset that the pit bull wouldn't behave before the start of the Pittsburgh Steelers game.
Firefighters have found one body and rescued several people from a fire at a southwestern Indiana motel.
An Ohio inmate fighting the state's new execution procedure is asking a federal court to intervene.
A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.
A New York state man has been convicted of reckless endangerment after leaving his 85-year-old father in a car on a hot day and finding him dead three hours later.
A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found innocent in her death.
A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.
Moving the Dead to Make Room for the Living - NYTimes.comCemetery turnover is just a part of life in Singapore. A fantastic narrative of a necessary, if unsettling, practice by Seth Mydans. Gravedigger Alex Wong Shun Feng is your host ...
Web service performs last online wishesNew service based in Sweden called Webwill offers to manage e-mail and social networking accounts after death.
Women 50 to 79, on antidepressants are 45% more likely to have a stroke-32% higher risk of deathPostmenopausal women who take antidepressants face a small but statistically significant increased risk for stroke and death compared with those who do not take the drugs.
Man Drags and Kills Bystander After Car Accident ConfrontationBELL-- A man has been arrested for allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian after dragging the victim for nearly a mile, authorities said,
Second Cat Dies From Swine FluA 2nd cat in Oregon has died after becoming infected with the H1N1 pandemic flu virus. The cat's owner presented the 8 year-old spayed female to an emergency veterinary clinic on 24 Nov 2009, complaining that the cat was suffering from severe weakness and pain.
US Military: Soldier Dies In Iraq - CBSNewsThe U.S. military says an American soldier in northern Iraq has died of injuries unrelated to combat.The military said in Saturday's statement that the Multi-National Division-North soldier died Friday.
UK bans Kenyans over corruption The UK has issued a travel ban to more than 20 Kenyan citizens accused of corruption, the High Commissioner says. Rob Macaire said the ban was a last resort, pointing out that no senior official had ever been convicted of corruption by a Kenyan court.
Cops reveal cremation fraud - Police have arrested an Atlantis funeral parlour owner for fraud after they discovered four bodies which were meant to have been cremated at least two months ago stored in his freezer. Two of the bodies have been positively identified by family members as having been scheduled f …
Casey Anthony's lawyer argues against death penalty for client A year after the remains of a Florida toddler were discovered, a lawyer for the slain child's mother asked a judge Friday to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against her"
Man found dead amid bee swarmInvestigations are continuing into the death of a 39-year-old man at Leyburn, south-west of Toowoomba in southern Queensland.
Woman sues debt collector over husband's death Dianne McLeod recalls her husband, Stanley, getting so visibly upset when the debt collectors called that she had to take the phone away from him. She believes constant harassing phone calls and other tactics eventually killed him.
Bones At Pebble Beach ID'd As Those Of Missing ManPEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Human bones discovered near Spyglass Hill Golf Course belong to an Alzheimer's patient who disappeared last March, Action News has confirmed.
1 Dead When Windblown Tree Topples Onto CarDAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. -- A person died Wednesday afternoon when wind toppled a tree onto a car several miles south of Denton. Authorities in Davidson County said the incident happened on Highway 109 south near Jim Elliot Road.
Student killed by exploding chewing gumThe 25-year-old chemistry student, who has not been named by police, was working at his parents' home in Konotop when relatives heard a "loud pop". They rushed to his room and discovered his body. The lower half of his face had been seriously disfigured by the blast.
Movie Producer Tyler Perry's Mother DiesThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted a 2006 interview with Perry in which he said his mother was the basis for his most popular character, Madea.
Does Death Exist? New Theory Says 'No' Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
Nigerian hospital 'overwhelmed by corpses from police'A Nigerian hospital has told the BBC it is overwhelmed by the number of corpses being brought to them by police.
Be Green.. Become Liquid Fertilizer At Death A body is placed inside a vault-like tube (after being wrapped in a silk bag, which is nice) and the chamber is then sealed, filled with water and lye, and steam-heated to 300 degrees.
New midwife hangs herself after hospital fails to tell her she was not to blame for sick baby's deathA midwife was found hanged after a hospital failed to tell her she was not to blame for a baby's death, an inquest heard yesterday.
Teacher tortures dogsA primary school teacher is facing two years in jail after she left her pregnant dog chained up in her kitchen while she went on holiday - for seven months.
'Course to blame for Rebekah Lawrence's death leap' A SELF-help course has been blamed by a coroner for the death of a woman who jumped from a Sydney office window after developing a psychosis on the course she had attended days earlier.
Schoolgirl who drowned was forced to cross swollen stream, inquest hearsA 14-year-old girl drowned as she trained for a tough moorland hiking challenge after a teacher insisted her group carry on despite terrible weather conditions, an inquest heard today.
Girl Dies Of Apparent Alcohol Poisoning During Slumber PartyGILROY, Calif. -- Gilroy police are trying to determine if drinking alcohol led to the death of a 15-year-old girl who died during a slumber party over the weekend.
Sweden: Abortion caused by "swine flu" vaccine again!A woman in Sweden was pregnant in the ninth month when she was talked into taking the "swine flu" vaccine by doctors. Two days later she gave birth to a perfect but lifeless son. "- I was longing so much to hear my child's laughter and cry", Zahra Abdelkader said.
Thirty years in Australia, then deported to dieANDREW DEREK MOORE arrived in Australia from Scotland aged 11. Almost 30 years and a string of convictions later, Australia decided he had failed its character test and cancelled his visa.
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