News about death
World's oldest man dies in New York
The world's oldest man, a 111-year-old US immigrant from Poland, has died at a New York home for the elderly, the Guinness Book of World Records said.
10 June 2014
Thousands mourn death of influential Nigerian monarch
Hundreds of thousands of people flocked the streets of Nigeria's second city on Friday to pay their final respects to one of the country's most influential traditional rulers as he was laid to rest.
07 June 2014
Last original Navajo Code Talker dies
Chester Nez, the last of 29 Navajo Indians who helped create a code used during World War II and never broken by the Axis Powers, died Wednesday. He was 93.
05 June 2014
Sri Lankan asylum-seeker sets himself on fire in Australia
A Sri Lankan Tamil asylum-seeker has died after setting himself on fire while awaiting a visa decision in Australia, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said.
02 June 2014
Light aircraft crashes in Almaty Oblast
A Light aircraft Bekas-X-32 has crashed in Almaty Oblast on May 28, 2014.
30 May 2014
After 8,000 cholera deaths, Haiti faces new epidemic
Hard-hit by a cholera epidemic that started in 2010, Haiti now faces a new threat in the expanding chikungunya virus, authorities said
29 May 2014
Mexican man, once world's heaviest, dies at 48
A Mexican man who was once the world's heaviest human when he weighed, weighing 597 kilos (1,316 pounds) at one point, has died at the age of 48, medical officials said.
27 May 2014
Watergate conspirator Jeb Magruder dies
Jeb Magruder, the Nixon White House aide imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal who later claimed he overheard the president order the break-in, has died. He was 79.
17 May 2014
Death toll rises in Ukraine, fresh warnings of civil war
The death toll from a military offensive in a flashpoint town in east Ukraine rose to at least 34, officials said Tuesday, amid fresh warnings of civil war and the shutdown of a major airport in the region.
07 May 2014
Diver dies at S. Korea ferry disaster site
A diver died Tuesday while working at a ferry disaster site in South Korea as further details emerged about how deception and negligence contributed to the April 16 tragedy.
06 May 2014
Russia's Samoilova, Cannes film star, dead at 80
Tatyana Samoilova, the Soviet-era movie star best known for her roles in "The Cranes are Flying" and "Anna Karenina", died on Monday aged 80.
05 May 2014
Chinese mourn young firemen who fell from highrise
Two young Chinese firefighters who fell to their deaths during a blaze in a highrise building are being hailed as heroes of their generation on social media.
03 May 2014
Death toll hits 32 in India rebel violence: police
Police found nine more bodies Saturday after a deadly rampage by tribal separatists in India's remote northeastern Assam state, taking the death toll to 32 following two days of violence.
03 May 2014
10 die in fire at Russian ammunition depot
Ten soldiers and civilian staff at a Russian military munitions depot burnt to death while fleeing a fire that sparked a series of explosions, the defence ministry said.
30 April 2014
Egypt verdict expected for Islamist chief, 700 others
The Egyptian judge who sentenced to death hundreds of supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi will pass judgment Monday on another 700 people, including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie.
28 April 2014
Kazakh legislation to make cadaveric donors lists classified
Information on cadaveric donors in Kazakhstan will be confidential.
27 April 2014
Britain's Camilla 'devastated' by brother's death in fall
Camilla, wife of Britain's Prince Charles, was on Wednesday left "utterly devastated" after her brother died in an accident during a night out in New York, Clarence House said.
24 April 2014
Death toll in South Korea ferry disaster crosses 100
The confirmed death toll from South Korea's ferry disaster crossed 100 on Tuesday, as dive teams, under growing pressure from bereaved relatives, accelerated the grim task of recovering hundreds more bodies from the submerged vessel.
23 April 2014
Wrongfully imprisoned US boxer 'Hurricane' Carter dies
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the prizefighter whose racially tinged wrongful murder conviction made him a symbol of injustice and a pop culture cause, died on Sunday at the age of 76.
21 April 2014
Garcia Marquez, godfather of magic realism, dies at 87
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel-winning Colombian author who used magical realism to tell epic stories of love, family and dictatorship in Latin America, died Thursday at the age of 87.
18 April 2014