4 h. ago Passengers pen goodbye letters during plane's 26,000 ft drop, oxygen masks deployed

A Japan Airlines flight suddenly dropped from 36,000 feet to 10,500 feet in 10 minutes on Monday, and passengers said they feared they might die during the terrifying ordeal

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5 d. ago Experts: What you do in first 10 minutes of a nuclear bomb will determine if you live or die

Amid escalating tensions and fear of World War 3 breaking out, here is what to do in the first 10 minutes of a nuclear bomb hitting, according to the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)

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6 d. ago British teacher, 25, dies in China just 90 minutes after 'excited to come home' call

Bradley Hall passed away from a suspected heart issue around six weeks ago while working in China, but his family haven't been able to bring his body back

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7 d. ago British teacher, 25, dies in China just 90 minutes after telling his mother how much he was looking forward to trip back to UK

Bradley Hall, 25, had been working as a teacher near Shanghai for two years when he died suddenly on May 10.

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1 week ago 'Heartbroken' family pays tribute to 'beautiful soul' of man, 20, who was found dead in village river

Jacob Rutkowski, who has been described as a 'beautiful soul' by his grieving family died after getting into difficulty in the river Tees in County Durham.

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3 w. ago ‘Send me some money!’ My unforgettable encounters with the legendary Sly Stone

He went from the towering highs of the 60s and 70s, where he changed the face of music, to the shambolic lows of a decades-long addiction. But interviewing the music genius over the years showed me a man who was awed, revered and strangely shySly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82A trailblazer and icon of hope and painSly Stone – a life in picturesIn 2013, there didn’t seem much point in requesting an interview with Sly Stone. It was 31 years since he had released an album of new material, Ain’t But the One Way, which he had abandoned midway through, vanishing completely from the studio and leaving the producer Stewart Levine to patch together what he could. It was longer still since he had produced any music that was even vaguely close to the standard he had set himself in the late 60s and early 70s – a six-year period bookended by the release of the groundbreaking single Dance to the Music in 1967 and his last truly classic album, Fresh, in 1973 – when he could...

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3 w. ago Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain

With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watchSly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82Sly Stone’s greatest songs – ranked!Sly Stone – a life in picturesEven though he recorded three of funk’s most foundational albums – four if you include 1970’s Greatest Hits, as flawless a good time as pop ever delivered – Sly Stone’s subsequent fall from grace was perceived as a grave betrayal of his talent. That Stone’s unravelling was so conspicuous – his drug abuse apparent in every wasted chat show appearance, his infallible hit-machine waning after his Family Stone became estranged – only exacerbated the sting of this loss. But Stone’s imperial era lasted almost a decade and delivered a discography that remains the acme of funk. He changed the course of pop and reconfigured the structure and essence of dance music, multiple times. He was an icon of hope, of pain,...

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3 w. ago Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain | Stevie Chick

With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watchSly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82Sly Stone’s greatest songs – ranked!Sly Stone – a life in picturesEven though he recorded three of funk’s most foundational albums – four if you include 1970’s Greatest Hits, as flawless a good time as pop ever delivered – Sly Stone’s subsequent fall from grace was perceived as a grave betrayal of his talent. That Stone’s unravelling was so conspicuous – his drug abuse apparent in every wasted chat show appearance, his infallible hit-machine waning after his Family Stone became estranged – only exacerbated the sting of this loss. But Stone’s imperial era lasted almost a decade and delivered a discography that remains the acme of funk. He changed the course of pop and reconfigured the structure and essence of dance music, multiple times. He was an icon of hope, of pain,...

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3 w. ago Sly Stone death: Funk and soul legend of ‘Dance to the Music’ fame dies aged 82

Sly and the Family Stone rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s

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3 w. ago I invented the 'Death Clock'... and was horrified when it confirmed my worst fears about my own health

Brent Franson invented the Death Clock app, which analyzes a person's body metrics and lifestyle, to predict - down to the minute - when and how a person will die.

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3 w. ago I died for eight minutes... my encounter proves the soul never dies

Clinically dead for eight minutes, a Colorado woman says she returned with a vivid, otherworldly experience that defies science and now shaking up how we think about life after death.

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3 w. ago I died for eight minutes... my encounter with divine beings proves the soul never dies

Clinically dead for eight minutes, a Colorado woman says she returned with a vivid, otherworldly experience that defies science and now shaking up how we think about life after death.

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3 w. ago Man who 'died' for 45 minutes during surgery reveals what he saw... it made him question everything

Mike McKinsey, from California in the US, had a near-death experience during a surgery to have his appendix removed.

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3 w. ago 'I died for 24 minutes so I know what's on the other side, death is not the end'

Tessa Romero, 50, has explained what she saw and felt as she found herself 'floating above' her own body

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4 w. ago Woman who died for 11 minutes shares chilling warning about 'what she saw'

Charlotte Holmes, from the US state of Alabama, has shared her astonishing near-death experience after she died for 11 minutes and says she saw 'heaven and hell'

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4 w. ago Woman who died for 11 minutes shares horrifying warning about what she saw

Charlotte Holmes, 68, died for 11 minutes after her blood pressure spiked during a routine heart check-up - she was later revived and shared her experience of the 'afterlife'

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4 w. ago Man mauled to death by pit bulls as rescuers forced to retreat from horror scene

Chris Culbertson died after suffering hundreds of wounds in a 23-minute attack by five pit bulls so vicious even a SWAT team couldn't control them.

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