6 h. ago Tragedy as music star, 30, collapses and dies just two days after getting engage

Elif Ozcan, a 30-year-old DJ from Bolu in northern Turkey, tragically collapsed and died just two days after getting engaged at a ceremony with friends and family

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6 h. ago Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit

Study finds chimpanzees’ enthusiasm for guzzling ripe fruit puts their ethanol intake at about 14g per daySomeone have a word with the chimps? Observations of the apes in the wild show them imbibing the alcoholic equivalent of a half pint of beer a day through the vast amount of fermented fruit in their diet.Researchers arrived at the first estimates of wild chimp daily alcohol intake after measuring ethanol levels in fallen fruit that the apes gather from the forest floor in Kibale national park in Uganda and in Taï national park in Ivory Coast. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Girl, 8, dies from brain tumour just 11 days after being diagnosed

Emily Smith died 11 days after going to hospital with a ‘strange feeling in her arm’

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9 h. ago Runner fundraising for brain tumour research after daughter’s death

Andy Smith will run this year’s Royal Parks Half Marathon in memory of Emily, his daughter who died 11 days after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

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9 h. ago Derby runner dies in ‘freak accident’ days before scheduled return to action at Ayr

Stanhope Gardens finished fifth in the Epsom Classic in June and had entries in both the Champion Stakes and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

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23 h. ago Actress and singer Joke Bruijs dies just three days after ex

Dutch actress and singer Joke Bruijs has died at the age of 73, just three days after the death of her ex-husband, actor, director, and singer Gerard Cox

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29 h. ago Drug driver who crashed her Mini into tree killing herself and passenger was 'anxious about driving in Britain'

Sara Pancas, 38, died two days after smashing her Mini into a tree beside the A11 at Ketteringham, Norfolk. Backseat passenger Sara Ribeiro, 29, died at the scene of the accident.

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39 h. ago Ricky Hatton's secret battles before his tragic death: Former champ, 46, was grieving friend who'd killed himself and was 'injured' days before he was due to sign Dubai comeback deal

Six days before he died, Ricky had attended the funeral of his friend David Leigh, who passed away suddenly in August after taking his own life.

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40 h. ago Dynasty star dies just days before her birthday as husband breaks tragic news

Actress Patricia Crowley, who was best known for her role in the sitcom Please Don't Eat The Daisies and who also appeared in Dynasty, has died in Los Angeles

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41 h. ago Patricia Crowley dead: Dynasty legend dies just days before her 92nd birthday

Patricia Crowley, who was best known for her roles in Please Don't Eat The Daisies and Dynasty, has died at the age of 91, her son has confirmed

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44 h. ago A father nearly died by an assailant’s bullet. He's one of many crime victims US wants to deport

A man detained by authorities days after he nearly died in an Iowa shooting is one of a growing number of crime victims who have been targeted in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration

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50 h. ago Trump's 'unusual lump' spotted under suit sparks more health theories

The US president, 79, dismissed the idea that he had died after he was mostly absent during Labor Day weekend earlier this month - but this hasn't stopped concerns over this health

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53 h. ago Within hours of coming down with flu, little Lorelei succumbed to a deadly brain condition

A healthy girl who doted on her cuddly Winnie-the-Pooh bear, Lorelei Cowmeadow seemed 'a bit under the weather' last November. She died a few days later - just before her second birthday.

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56 h. ago Within hours of coming down with flu, little Lorelei was dead. Her parents had no idea what was wrong, until they discovered she had this deadly, little

A healthy girl who doted on her cuddly Winnie-the-Pooh bear, Lorelei Cowmeadow seemed 'a bit under the weather' last November. She died a few days later - just before her second birthday.

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59 h. ago Family of millionaire farmer, 75, who died one day after secretly marrying his carer, 51, freeze administration of his estate to stop it going to widow they branded a 'gold digger'

Joseph Grogan, from Screggan, Tullamore, was 75 when he died - hours after attending a registry office to marry Lisa Flaherty, on April 15, 2025.

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59 h. ago Paedophile Harry Day's prison death 'restrained to bed' sparks watchdog criticism

Disgraced youth worker Harry Day died aged 87 while a serving prisoner at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire in September last year - prompting criticism from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman which probed his death

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3 d. ago When my husband died, I didn't know how to live without him. So I taught myself how to contact him and now we communicate every day... here's EXACTLY how you can too, by neuroscientist DR TARA SWART

It's a moment that will be etched on my brain forever. It was just after my husband Robin died almost four years ago.

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3 d. ago ‘I woke up and there was no water’: Gaza’s human rights defenders in their own words | Mary Lawlor

A UN special rapporteur shares the stories of those trying to record the horrors of Gaza even as they live through them“Yesterday I talked to a mother of a child who was born and died in the war.”“Every day I look at my child, who instead of going to school is going to fetch water, and instead of playing football is hanging around in areas where corpses are lying.”Mary Lawlor is UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Our beautiful, healthy daughter died in agony at 29 – we don't want any family to go through the same heartache

Rachel Day went from sipping cocktails to screaming in pain, ten days later she died. To mark World Sepsis Day her parents have spoken out

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4 d. ago Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Barney Ronay

Portugal star will hand Gianni Infantino the perfect publicity coup if he does play in America for the first time in more than 10 years, having already begun cosying up to Donald TrumpIs it still safe to stage the World Cup in the United States? After more headline evidence this week of the extreme nature of American gun violence, some may conclude that the answer is no. Nine months out from the opening game, it is now almost impossible to ignore this. But believe it or not statistics suggest more than 300 people will have been shot in America last Wednesday alone.The same number will also be shot on Friday, Saturday, every day next week, and every day of World Cup year. On average 127 of these unnamed, largely non-famous people not called things such as the superstar influencer Charlie Kirk will die each day. Within this, youth gun deaths will be both alarmingly high and a register of social injustice: a disproportionate 46% of all young people shot will be black. Continue reading...

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