900 residents live a tranquil life on Hornby Island. But they are in shock over the death of Tempest Gale, found in 20 feet of water on Wednesday. RCMP say she was murdered. It is the first time anyone has been killed by another on this Island paradise.

Raj Soomel, a 35-year-old father, was gunned down near a half-way house in Vancouver where he was living following a conviction for attempted murder. On Sept. 29 he was gunned down. Police now say it was a case of mistaken identity.

The investigation into Bill Sparkman's death is still ongoing, however, Kentucky state police are said to be investigating whether Sparkman might have killed himself in order for his family to get his insurance.

A tragic car accident in Vernon, B.C. blamed on seasonal road conditions has killed a ten-year-old boy and his grandmother. The car the two were in lost control, crossed the centre-line and was slammed by a pickup.

A deer, a seven-point buck, was killed when it rammed a 640-pound concrete statue of an elk in the backyard of Mark and Carol Brye's home in rural Viroqua.

A report says the former South African Air Force (SAAF) pilot who was killed at yesterday’s Overberg Fly-In near Cape Town was a very experienced pilot with close to 16,000 flying hours.

A former military aircraft belonging to a private aviation company has crashed at an air show near Cape Town, killing the pilot, Dave Stock.

The hunt for albinos in Tanzania and Burundi by witchdoctors, who use their body parts for the manufacturing of traditional medicine, has claimed over 60 lives over the past recent months.

A Russian judge has reduced the sentence of a man who confessed that he had killed and cannibalized his mother. The judge said, "he needed to eat."

Ministry of Defense staff in the UK were paid more than £47m in bonuses in the first seven months of this year. When that was revealed last week, the nation recoiled, led by the mothers of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A Toronto-born businesswoman testified before a London tribunal that she believed her former boss, a multi-millionaire banker in London, hired someone to have her killed.

Former top Blackwater executives claim the company planned to use about $1 million in bribe money to silence Iraqi officials "and buy their support" after security guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007. Billions for Blackwater were at stake.

The Sacrifice Medal was created to officially acknowledge Canadians who have either been wounded or killed while serving in the military. This week, 46 soldiers were awarded the medal.

After 13 people were killed at Fort Hood last week, U.S. officials said they will re-examine the issue of stress on soldiers. So does stress lead to incidents of violence in other countries as well? Do Canadian soldiers endure stress differently?

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised after writing a mistake-filled letter to the mother of a young soldier killed last month in Afghanistan.

The government in El Salvador says approximately 124 people have lost their lives following recent floods that hit the area. The people who died were killed as a result of landslides and flooding.

That figures out as about 100,000 casualties a year. An average of 84 of those shot, die. As cultural statements go, this ranks about equal with “It’s not loaded”, and “There’s no place like… Get down, Auntie Em!”.

Jerry Fuchs, drummer for the Indie bands Juan MacLean and Maserati has died after falling inside a broken elevator shaft. Fuchs plunged down five stories in the elevator shaft.

This last week Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist in the Army Medical Corps, killed 13 people and wounded 31 more. What can we learn about mental health issues from this?

A suicide bomb attack has been carried out in Peshawar, Pakistan. It is estimated that 12 people have been killed and more than 30 were injured from the explosion.