6 h. ago Operation to recover Mike Lynch’s superyacht suspended after diver dies

Work to raise the Bayesian is put on hold as investigators seek to establish the cause of the 39-year-old Dutchman’s deathRecovery operations to raise the late tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht Bayesian from the seabed off Sicily have been suspended after a diver died during underwater work.Rob Cornelis Maria Huijben, a 39-year-old Dutch diver, died on Friday while doing preparation work to cut the ship’s mainmast. He was employed by the maritime company Hebo, whose barge arrived last week in Porticello, a fishing port near Palermo. The luxury vessel was anchored just off Porticello when it was struck shortly before dawn by a violent storm on 19 August 2024. It sank within seconds, killing seven people, including Lynch and his daughter Hannah. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Man admits causing death of 'most amazing' woman by dangerous driving

'Everybody adored her'

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55 h. ago Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution

Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi according to protocol, which lawyers say caused prolonged sufferingA South Carolina firing squad botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi last month, with shooters missing the target area on the man’s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death, according to autopsy records and his attorneys.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees last month in the second firing squad execution this year in South Carolina. The state has aggressively revived capital punishment over the last seven months and brought back the controversial firearm method that has rarely been used in the modern death penalty era. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago DJ Hazel death: Police investigate after popular DJ found dead in parked car

News of the musician’s death was confirmed by his fiancée

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61 h. ago DJ Hazel dies aged 44 as cops launch probe into 'mysterious circumstances'

DJ Hazel, real name Michał Orzechowski, has been found dead in a car, with his cause of death being unclear, according to local reports

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63 h. ago April storms that killed 24 in US made more severe by burning fossil fuels – study

Study finds human-caused climate change made four-day rainfall across central Mississippi valley 40% more likelyThe four-day historic storm that caused death and destruction across the central Mississippi valley in early April was made significantly more likely and more severe by burning fossil fuels, rapid analysis by a coalition of leading climate scientists has found.Record quantities of rain were dumped across eight southern and midwestern states between 3 and 6 April, causing widespread catastrophic flooding that killed at least 15 people, inundated crops, wrecked homes, swept away vehicles and caused power outages for hundreds of thousands of households. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Teen best friends die 'hand in hand' on roadside after driver ignored pleas to slow down

Anthony McGinn, 61, will be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to dangerous driving which caused the deaths of best friends Kiea McCann, 17, and Dlava Mohamed, 16

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3 d. ago Hollyoaks child killer return confirmed two years after causing multiple deaths

Waterloo Road star Zak Sutcliffe is taking on the role of Bobby Costello who is set to make a shock return to Hollyoaks in the coming weeks after two years from the village

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3 d. ago BMW driver, 25, admits killing mother and daughter in 'fireball' Boxing Day crash that left three others fighting for their lives

A man has admitted causing the deaths of a mother and daughter and seriously injuring three others in a Boxing Day crash.

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3 d. ago Inside 'killer fungus' plague that could cause millions of agonising deaths

Invasive fungal infections, including aspergillosis - caused by the common Aspergillus fungus - are responsible for at least 2.5 million deaths worldwide every year

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4 d. ago Elderly patients 'murdered by serial killer nurse' who was dubbed the 'Angel of Death' may have died of natural causes, Court of Appeal told

Colin Campbell was jailed for 30 years in 2008 for the murder of four pensioners and the attempted murder of another at hospitals in Leeds, Yorkshire, by injecting them with insulin.

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4 d. ago How much you pay in taxes may show how high your cancer risk is. Here’s why

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in America, killing more than 600,000 people each year

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4 d. ago Young woman posted idyllic photos from dream holiday to Greece

The cause of death for care worker Melissa Cross, 23, was recorded as having taken her own life just days after her idyllic holiday to Greece, an inquest in Pontypridd, South Wales, heard

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4 d. ago Man and dog killed in suspected bear attack in Florida woods

If the cause of death is confirmed, this would be the first documented fatal bear attack in the history of Florida

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4 d. ago Coronation Street spoilers: Julie's cause of death, Gary vs Mick and Kit exposed

Coronation Street spoilers for next week reveal Gary Windass takes revenge on Mick Michaelis, there's news about how Julie Carp died and Kit Green's past is exposed on the ITV soap

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5 d. ago Heartbroken Coronation Street fans 'work out real cause' of Julie's tragic death in huge twist

Coronation Street aired the heartbreaking death of Julie Carp during tonight's episode after she was seen visiting the lake with her sister Eileen Grimshaw

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5 d. ago Madness, murder and rape on the Batavia: new theory on Australia’s most horrific shipwreck

Dutch academic says an ‘unlikely story about a mad heretic’ has been repeated for 400 years – and poses an alternativeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn “evil” man took advantage of a shipwreck to lead a mutiny that caused the death of more than 100 men, women and children.So goes the story of the Batavia, wrecked off the West Australian coast in 1629.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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5 d. ago John Swinney condemns Israeli plan to 'capture' Gaza that would cause 'more deaths'

Scotland's First Minister called for a two-state solution to bring peace to the Middle East amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.

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6 d. ago Pedestrian, 71, killed following 'serious' crash as man arrested

A 68-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following the incident in Eccles on Saturday night

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7 d. ago BREAKING: Snowdonia campsite horror: Toddler's cause of death revealed after vehicle collision

Mabel Elizabeth Baldini, 18 months old, was with her family when she suffered severe head injury in a collision with a vehicle at a "family-friendly site" at the foot of Snowdonia in Wales

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