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15-year-old found dead in park
A 15-year-old girl found dead in a park in Newtownards, County Down, is believed to have been abusing solvents. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Service honours UK forces’ dead
Relatives of 119 UK service personnel killed last year gather at the National Memorial Arboretum for a private service. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Service to honour UK forces’ dead
The families of 119 UK service personnel killed last year will gather at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire later. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Anger as Turkey buries its dead
Turkey mourns nine people killed in the Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla as Israel rejects an outside inquiry. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Gunman’s rampage leaves 12 dead
Police are searching for a gunman who has killed several people after opening fire in west Cumbria, northern England. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Turkey mourns Gaza flotilla dead
Crowds turn out in Istanbul for the funerals of nine people killed in Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Murder probe as three found dead
A murder investigation starts after three people were found dead in a house in a Derbyshire village. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Judges shot dead at China court
Three judges are shot dead in China’s Hunan province by a man armed with a submachine gun who later killed himself, say reports. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Dead station baby’s mother traced
Detectives investigating the discovery of a baby’s body at a railway station have traced the mother of the child. A teenage girl has come forward and is now receiving treatment, Hampshire police said. The baby girl was found wrapped in a plastic bag inside a bin by a cleaner at the front of Fleet station... »
Bassist with Slipknot found dead
Paul Gray, bassist with metal rockers Slipknot, is found dead in a hotel in the US city of Des Moines, police say. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Iraqi lawmaker shot dead in Mosul
An Iraqi MP from the secular Iraqiya bloc is shot and killed by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
‘Many dead’ in India plane crash
Dozens of people are feared dead as a passenger plane crashes near the Indian city of Mangalore after flying from Dubai. This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. »
Earthworms eat live rather than just dead plants
Earthworms eat seeds and seedlings, scientists have found. The discovery they eat live rather than just dead plants will change the way we think about earthworms, which had been thought to benefit plants by recycling soil nutrients. It may offer a way for gardeners and farmers to encourage more earthworms into their soil, for example.... »
UK family shot dead in Pakistan
Three Britons – all members of the same family – have been shot dead in Pakistan, according to local police. The father, mother and 22-year-old daughter were killed while visiting a cemetery in the east of the country. It is thought the family are from Nelson in Lancashire. They were shot by four gunmen, all... »
Dead pair’s father on sex charges
A British woman is being held in police custody after two of her children were found dead at a Spanish holiday resort. Police said the children, a boy of one and a girl of five, were discovered in a room at the Hotel Miramar in the coastal town of Lloret de Mar. They said the... »
UK children found dead in Spain
A British woman is being questioned by Spanish police after two of her children were found dead in a holiday resort in Spain. Police said the children, a boy and a girl both under the age of six, were discovered in a hotel room in the coastal town of Lloret de Mar. The British Embassy... »
Indian zoo to stuff dead animals
The only zoo in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) plans to stuff its animals after their deaths and put them on show in a museum, officials say. The move follows a ban by India’s central zoo authority on new animals being kept in confined spaces. Mumbai zoo says it is unable to replace animals... »
Whale sighting near Israel raises ‘back from the dead’ question
A gray whale has appeared off the coast of Israel, shocking conservationists. Gray whales are thought to be extinct across the Atlantic Ocean, so the appearance of an individual within the Mediterranean Sea is a major surprise. The whale may have inadvertently travelled a huge distance from its natural habitat thousands of kilometres away in... »
Russian mine blasts leave 11 dead
Seven miners have been killed by a methane blast at a Russian coal mine. Many miners were brought to the surface safely at the mine in Siberia’s western Kemerovo region, but 64 are still underground. Four miners are injured. A total of 312 miners were inside the Raspadskaya mine near Mezhdurechensk at the time of... »
Eight dead in Russian mine blast
Seven miners have been killed by a methane blast at a Russian coal mine. Many miners were brought to the surface safely at the mine in Siberia’s western Kemerovo region, but 64 are still underground. Four miners are injured. A total of 312 miners were inside the Raspadskaya mine near Mezhdurechensk at the time of... »
Murder hunt after man shot dead
A murder inquiry has been launched after a man was shot dead in a north London street. Officers were called to Mount Pleasant Road, in Tottenham, at 1140 BST on Friday after receiving reports of gun shots being fired. The victim – thought to be aged 21 – died at the scene. A post-mortem examination... »
Nigeria President Yar’Adua ‘dead’
Fifty-eight-year-old Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua died at his presidential villa on Wednesday, state TV has announced. A presidential aide and the information minister confirmed his death to the BBC. Mr Yar’Adua, who became president in 2007, had been ill for some time, and had not been seen in public for months. Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan was... »
Nine dead in Mississippi tornado
Storms in the US state of Mississippi have left at least seven people, including children, dead. Governor Haley Barbour said there was "utter obliteration" in Yazoo County, where three died, and he declared a state of emergency in 17 counties. A church in Yazoo City was flattened and houses reduced to rubble. Tornados have also... »
China remembers earthquake dead
China is to hold a national day of mourning for victims of the powerful earthquake in Qinghai province. Flags will be flown at half mast across the country on Wednesday as a mark of respect, one week after the quake hit. The announcement came as the number of people known to have been killed in... »
Somalia fighting leaves 19 dead
At least 19 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in an outburst of fighting in the divided Somali capital Mogadishu. Thirteen people died when African Union peacekeepers and government forces hit back after a militant attack on a military ceremony. Reports say the AU forces used heavy artillery in densely populated areas in... »
‘Six dead’ as Italy train derails
A train has derailed in northern Italy, killing at least six people and injuring 20 others, according to media reports. Rescuers said a landslide in the town of Merano, near the border with Austria, had affected the rail track. Many of the injured were in a serious condition, the Ansa news agency said citing rescue... »
Poland grieves for dead president
Poland has been plunged into mourning by the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of political and military leaders in a plane crash. The jet crashed as it attempted to land at Smolensk airport in Russia in thick fog, killing all 97 people on board. Russian officials have said the pilots ignored warnings from... »
Clashes in Thailand leave 18 dead
Thai security forces have retaken a satellite TV transmission station and again stopped its broadcasts. Thousands of protesters had seized control of the opposition-controlled People Channel, forcing officials to allow it back on air. The authorities say the channel incites violence and spreads false information. Over the past three weeks, red-shirted demonstrators demanding new elections... »
Clashes in Thailand leave 15 dead
Thai security forces have retaken a satellite TV transmission station and again stopped its broadcasts. Thousands of protesters had seized control of the opposition-controlled People Channel, forcing officials to allow it back on air. The authorities say the channel incites violence and spreads false information. Over the past three weeks, red-shirted demonstrators demanding new elections... »
Thailand clashes leave nine dead
Thai security forces have retaken a satellite TV transmission station and again stopped its broadcasts. Thousands of protesters had seized control of the opposition-controlled People Channel, forcing officials to allow it back on air. The authorities say the channel incites violence and spreads false information. Over the past three weeks, red-shirted demonstrators demanding new elections... »
Four missing US miners found dead
Rescue teams have been forced to retreat for the third time from their search for four missing miners after an explosion on Monday. The blast in the West Virginia mine killed 25 in the deadliest mining disaster since 1984. The crew on Friday reached one chamber where the the workers may have sought refuge, dimming... »
Moscow ready to bury Metro dead
Moscow is preparing to hold funerals for most of the 39 people killed by Monday’s double suicide bombings on the city’s Metro system. Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov has said his group was behind the attacks. In a video message posted on a Chechen rebel website, he said he had personally ordered the operation. He... »
Eleven dead in US highway crash
Eleven people were killed in the US state of Kentucky when a truck crashed into a church van carrying a family on their way to a wedding. The tractor-trailer crossed the central reservation and struck the van head-on, officials said. It then hit a rock wall and burst into flames, local media reported. The trailer... »
Dead man wins extradition battle
By Dominic CascianiBBC News A man who fought Britain’s longest-running battle against extradition has been allowed to stay by the High Court – weeks after he died. Businessman Mohammed Lodhi spent a decade resisting extradition on drug charges to the United Arab Emirates. He died in January just six weeks after the end of a legal... »
Social care deal ‘dead in water’
By Nick TriggleHealth reporter, BBC News Hopes of reaching a cross-party deal on funding social care appear to be dead in the water. The three main parties are due to take part in talks hosted by the merged Age Concern and Help the Aged charity. But despite pleas from council chiefs for unity, fresh rows about... »