36 m. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Terry Smith, visionary Forth Ports Property Director who helped transform Leith

Terence Smith, Property Director, Forth Ports. Born: February 1947 in Kelvindale, Glasgow. Died: April 2025 at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, aged 78

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11 h. ago Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer

The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in picturesIt’s a testament to the epic career of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who died this week at age 81, that this year has already seen exhibitions of hundreds of his photos in Mexico City, France and southern California. Salgado, who in his lifetime produced more than 500,000 images while meticulously documenting every continent on Earth and many of the major geopolitical events since the second world war, will be remembered as one of the world’s most prodigious and relentlessly empathetic chroniclers of the human condition.An economist by training, Salgado only began photographing at age 29 after picking up the camera of his wife, Lélia. He began working as a photojournalist in the 1970s, quickly building an impressive reputation that led him to the pres...

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14 h. ago Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81

Death confirmed by Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he and his wife foundedThe Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose dramatic black-and-white photographs of the Amazon introduced the rainforest to the world, has died. He was 81.His death was confirmed by the Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he founded with his wife of six decades, Lélia Wanick Salgado. In a post on Instagram, the institute described Salgado as “much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time”. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Three men aged 19 to 23 die in crash as police arrest pair in second car for 'death by careless driving'

Emergency services were called to Cotgrave Road in Tollerton shortly after 11pm on Thursday. The driver of a vehicle and his two male passengers were pronounced dead at the scene.

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18 h. ago Uche Ojeh dead: Today show's Sheinelle Jones' husband dies aged 45 after brain cancer

Uche Ojeh - the husband of Sheinelle Jones - has died following a battle with brain cancer. He was 45 years old when he died and the news was shared with TODAY viewers live on air

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18 h. ago Tollerton horror crash leaves three dead as police make several arrests

A23-year-old driver and two male passengers, aged 19 and 21, all died in a horror incident in Tollerton, Nottinghamshire, at around 11pm last night, as police made arrests

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18 h. ago Former Wales rugby international Mark Jones dies aged 59 as tributes pour in

Mark Jones has passed away after suffering a heart attack in Qatar

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19 h. ago Legendary Carpenters composer dies aged 84 as tributes pour in for the We've Only Just Begun hitmaker

We've Only Just Begun composer Roger Nichols has died aged 84. 

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20 h. ago Music agent Dave Shapiro and drummer among six dead in San Diego plane crash as tributes pour in

Tributes pour in for Shapiro and his contributions to the industry, as he tragically dies in a San Diego plane crash, claiming six lives

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21 h. ago Music agent Dave Shapiro among the dead after plane crashes into San Diego neighborhood

Six people were on board the plane when it crashed on Thursday - all are presumed dead

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22 h. ago The Carpenters legend dies as daughter pens heartbreaking tribute to hitmaker

Music star Roger Nichols, who co-wrote some of The Carpenters' biggest hits, has died at the age of 84, with his family and longtime collaborator Paul Williams paying tribute

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23 h. ago San Diego plane crash: Tributes pour in for music agent Dave Shapiro and drummer Daniel Williams

The fiery crash occurred around 3:47 a.m. in the Murphy Canyon neighborhood, igniting cars and homes and injuring eight people on the ground. The total number of victims is still unknown

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32 h. ago Music agency employees among several people dead in San Diego plane crash

Sound Talent Group says three employees killed as officials investigate what caused Cessna 550 plane to crashSeveral people have died, including the co-founder of a music agency, after a small aircraft crashed in a neighborhood in San Diego early on Thursday morning, clipping one home and damaging several vehicles.Sound Talent Group, which has represented artists such as Sum 41 and Vanessa Carlton, confirmed on Thursday that three of its employees died on the private plane. Among those who died was the agency’s co-founder Dave Shapiro, who was listed as the owner of the plane and has a pilot’s license, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Tributes pour in after drummer Daniel Williams and music agent Dave Shapiro named as victims in San Diego plane crash

The fiery crash occurred around 3:47 a.m. in the Murphy Canyon neighborhood, igniting cars and homes and injuring eight people on the ground. The total number of victims is still unknown

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34 h. ago Music agent Dave Shapiro among the dead after plane crashed into San Diego neighborhood

It was not immediately clear how many people were on the plane at the time of the crash, or if those killed were on the plane.

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38 h. ago Tributes paid as Team GB boxer Georgia O’Connor dies after cancer battle

Professional boxer Georgia O'Connor has died at the age of 25.

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39 h. ago Timothy West's heartbreaking final wish as actor's cause of death announced

Timothy West, who appeared in shows like EastEnders and Brass over the course of his career, died, aged 90, last year and an inquest into his death took place today

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42 h. ago Tributes pour in as boxer Georgia O’Connor dies aged 25 after cancer battle

The Durham boxer won multiple youth medals as an amateur, represented Great Britain, and went 3-0 as a pro

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42 h. ago Female Team GB boxer dies at 25 just two weeks after getting married

Georgia O'Connor, a former Team GB boxer and Commonwealth Youth Games champion, has died at the age of 25 following a battle with cancer after she was diagnosed with the illness in January

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46 h. ago Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li review – a shattering account of losing two sons

The novelist’s meditation on grief, memory and radical acceptance contains both horror and comfortIn this quietly devastating account of life after the death by suicide of both of her sons, Yiyun Li refuses to use “mourning” or “grieving” because they cannot adequately contain the magnitude of her experience. “My husband and I had two children and lost them both,” she writes, and words can only “fall short”.She begins by laying out the facts. And those facts, raw and precise, are shattering: Vincent died in 2017, aged 16. James died in 2024, aged 19. Vincent, we learn, loved baking and knitting, and did not live long enough to graduate high school. James, a brilliant linguist studying at Princeton, where Li teaches creative writing, took his last Japanese class on a Friday. “Facts, with their logic, meaning, and weight, are what I hold on to,” she writes. Things in Nature Merely Grow is by necessity profoundly sad, but in the act of sharing details of the “a...

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