Tag: dead
Norwegian blue parrot did exist
"This parrot is deceased A Monty Python fan has discovered that Norwegian parrots really did exist. Some 55 million years before John Cleese and Michael Palin immortalised the "Norwegian...
Woman's dead body lies in flat for 35 years
"ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Governments have changed. War erupted and ended. Neighbors had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left her tiny apartment in Croatia's capital -- until her mummified body was carried out this week, 35 years after she died....
Museum Director Is Found Dead
An American director of a museum at Bangkok University, who was recently charged with wire fraud, has been found dead in Seattle. "The 62-year-old American director of a museum in Thailand who was indicted in a federal investigation into looted antiquities was found dead in a...
China Says Earthquake Toll Could Rise Above 50,000
While it was recently reported that 15,000 people had died and over 50,000 were missing, China announced today the death toll could quickly soar past 50,000 as three days have passed since the massive earthquake hit...
Car Bombing Kills 1, Injures 4 in Spain
One man was killed and four others were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Legutiano, Spain on Wednesday. More on this story as it develops. "The explosion of a booby-trapped van outside a civil guard barracks in Spain's restive Basque country on Wednesday killed a man and...
Renewed fighting erupts in crisis-torn Lebanon
The Lebanese army is doing it's best to keep the country from erupting
into an all-out civil war, but it's proving to be an uphill battle."BEIRUT (AFP) — Fierce fighting erupted in northern Lebanon on Monday,...
Sderot under attack , one dead in Kibbutz kfar aza
Sderot a small town in the south west of Israel borders with Hamas controlled Gaza strip was hit this morning by 20 qassam rockets fired from Gaza, one of the rockets hit a synoguge during the sabath morning prayers...
Gunmen kill third top Mexican policeman
The third top Mexican policeman has been shot dead today, while the country continues to fight against drug-trafficking."Assailants sprayed the car of the deputy police chief of the border city of Ciudad Juarez on...
NeoCons meet Stephen King - Were war dead cremate...
This is one of those stories that make even the most ardent administration supporter wonder if military outsourcing has gone too far. "WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of U.S. service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and...
Lebanon in turmoil as Shiite gunmen seize control...
UPDATE: 1:53PM ESTAfter three days of deadly street battles, Hezbollah has seized control of West Beirut, pushing Lebanon dangerously close to an all-out civil war.At least 11 people have been killed so far."
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Foreign aid begins to reach some 1.5 mil affected...
UPDATE: 9:28 p.m. May 8 First big aid flight finally lands in MyanmarMyanmar government has allowed aid supplies, but not aid personnel from the west to trickle into its devastated regions.""Currently Myanmar...
Probe into sub-station explosion in England
UPDATE: 2:35PM EST - May 8There is to be an official probe into the explosion at a sub-station in Essex, England yesterday." A member of staff working for EDF Energy died at the sub-station in Chelmsford on Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters were called to Bishop Hall Lane in...
Country Music Legend Eddy Arnold Dead at 89
Country music star Eddy Arnold has passed away at the age of 89."Eddy Arnold, country music's "Tennessee Plowboy" whose rendition of "Make the World Go Away" was an international hit in the 1960s, died on Thursday at...
'Grand Theft Auto IV' races into videogame record...
The highly anticipated 'Grand Theft Auto: IV' has raked in 500 million dollars in its opening week, setting videogame records and leaving all other competition in its virtual dust."Take-Two Interactive said...
Burma Over 350 people dead - in Myanmar Regions -...
UPDATE 05/04 "(May 4, 2008)--Myanmar's state-run media is reporting that more than 350 people have died after a powerful cyclone hit the Asian country's southwest coast. The military-run television station says five...
