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US civil rights leader Reverend Joseph Lowery who campaigned with Martin Luther King died on Friday aged 98."Our beloved, Rev. Dr.
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Paris -
A French doctor caring for coronavirus patients has died of the illness, authorities said Sunday, the first such death in the country that is grappling with the mushrooming outbreak.
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Paris -
The first French doctor battling the coronavirus has died as the death toll in the country spiralled to 674 Sunday.
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New Delhi -
India on Thursday reported its first coronavirus death as authorities ordered schools, theatres and cinemas closed in New Delhi for the rest of the month in a bid to keep the pandemic at bay.
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New York -
Jack Welch, who built General Electric into a global industrial flagship and became one of America's best-known businessmen, died on Monday aged 84, the company said.
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London -
The management team of British TV presenter Caroline Flack, who committed suicide on Saturday, has accused prosecutors of pursuing a "show trial" over domestic abuse claims against the "vulnerable" star.
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Seoul -
A tearful reunion between a mother and her dead daughter via advanced virtual reality for a South Korean television has become an online hit, triggering fierce debate about voyeurism and exploitation.
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A woman in her 80s has become the first person with the new coronavirus to die in Japan, the country's health minister said Thursday, cautioning it was not clear if the virus caused her death.
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Dhaka -
Often treated as less than human in life, there has been little dignity in death for the sex workers of one of the world's biggest brothels: their bodies frequently tossed into unmarked graves or dumped in the river.Until now.
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Washington -
Bernie Madoff, jailed in the United States for perpetrating the world's largest fraud, is terminally ill and wants to leave prison to die, his attorney said Wednesday.
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Nairobi -
Former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi, who ruled the country with an iron fist between 1978 and 2002, has died aged 95, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Tuesday.
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Wuhan -
A grey-haired man wearing a face mask lies dead on the pavement at ground zero of China's virus epidemic, a plastic shopping bag in one hand.
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Los Angeles -
The helicopter that crashed into a Los Angeles hillside killing NBA legend Kobe Bryant and eight others, was not equipped with vital software that alerts pilots when aircraft are too close to the ground, officials said.
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Los Angeles -
Rescuers recovered the bodies of all nine victims from a helicopter crash near Los Angeles that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, the coroner's office said Tuesday.
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Manila -
A city in hoops-mad Philippines inaugurated on Sunday a new community centre and basketball court named in honour of Kobe Bryant -- only hours before news of the NBA legend's death broke.
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Sydney -
A woman died while taking part in a cake-eating competition to celebrate Australia Day, local media reported Monday.Paramedics were called to a pub in the state of Queensland on Sunday afternoon after a woman was involved in a "medical incident".
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London -
The death toll in British prisons is "a national scandal", a pressure group said on Wednesday, calling for a reduction in inmate numbers just as the government is promising tougher sentences.
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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, the largest in a series of quakes that have struck the US territory in recent days and caused heavy damage in some areas.
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Buenos Aires -
No one can escape Argentina's biggest economic crisis in almost two decades -- not even the dead. The cost of buying, renting and maintaining graves and tombs is so high that many people opt to cremate their loved ones instead.
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Havana -
Harry Villegas, a Cuban guerilla who served under Che Guevara in his doomed Bolivia campaign and subsequently walked in his funeral procession, has died in Havana, state television reported on Sunday.
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Bangkok -
A French tourist has died after falling from a waterfall while trying to take a selfie in Thailand, police said Friday.
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Istanbul -
The British founder of a group that helped establish the Syrian White Helmets rescue organisation has died in Istanbul, his office said on Monday.
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Phnom Penh -
A 21-year-old British tourist whose body was found floating in the sea off the Cambodian coast accidentally drowned, an official said Friday, ruling out foul play after a days-long search grabbed international headlines.
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New York -
A forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein's brother said Wednesday that evidence suggested the disgraced financier had not died by suicide in his jail cell but had been murdered.
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Greece has acquired its first crematorium, organisers said Thursday, capping decades of efforts blocked by the powerful Greek Orthodox Church, which believes cremation disrespects the human body.
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London -
Legendary British drummer Ginger Baker, a founding member of British psychedelic band Cream, died on Sunday aged 80, it was announced on his Twitter account.
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Washington -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday sent belated condolences to France following the death of former president Jacques Chirac, who passed away last week.
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Harare -
Data on health, economics, corruption, press freedom and migration reveal much about Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule. He died aged 95 in Singapore on September 6, nearly two years after he was ousted by the military in 2017.
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Data on health, economics, corruption, press freedom and migration reveal much about Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule. He died aged 95 in Singapore on September 6, nearly two years after he was ousted by the military in 2017.
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A teenager lay dead in his campus dorm room for up to two months, a New Zealand university said Thursday, with the young man's body only discovered after fellow residents complained of the smell.
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Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, biologist and head of operations at Promessa Organic is developing a new method of disposition for the dead called 'promession'. Described as an environmentally friendly form of burial, and could in fact be the greenest of green disposition options. The Daily Undertaker
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FAMILY: The young gorilla on the right, Hasani, is the brother of Habibe, the gorilla who died Nov. 7 in an accident at San Francisco Zoo. Daniel Ramirez/Wikimedia Commons
You can now eliminate Illinois from this death penalty map By crankyyankee1776
The widows waiting at the Fairmont Mine Disaster in 1907 Mine Safety and Health Administration of Dept of Labor
The Aeternal is a futuristic hearse created to offer a luxurious and high-tech burial. Lunatic Koncepts
A Victorian hearse, pulled by two splendid black horses, waits outside the British Library
Screen dump from the Merck website showing the words "Be well" in their logo. Merck PR
The house in Pleasant Grove, Utah, where the bodies of seven babies were found in the garage. The Associated Press
Big crowds in Memphis. For the vigil alone, 75,000, it as noted. Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc.
A cemetery in France Wimbledonian on Flick'r
A trail of life and death in the bush.
Aaron Swartz, Internet activist and programmer played a key role in stopping a controversial online piracy bill in Congress, has died at age 26, an apparent suicide, New York authorities said January 13, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Noah Berger
The body of Ronnie Smith is pictured in the morgue at Benghazi Medical Center in Benghazi With permission by Reuters//Esam Omran Al-Fetori
Princess Diana's coffin borne through the streets of London Paddy Briggs
Screen grab from a National Geographic documentary on death. YouTube
Aaron Swartz, Internet activist and programmer played a key role in stopping a controversial online piracy bill in Congress, has died at age 26, an apparent suicide, New York authorities said January 13, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Noah Berger
Dave Goldberg died while exercising on a treadmill TechCrunch
Photograph of graves on the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, Beijing, China. Taken 8 January 2012 Author Rolfmueller
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