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Muhammad Ali death: Obama will not attend memorial
US President Barack Obama will not attend a memorial to the late boxer Muhammad Ali on Friday, the White House says. Ali died last Friday at the age of 74 in hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. World leaders will be among thousands attending Friday's procession and memorial service in Louisville, Kentucky, where Ali was born. The...
Muhammad Ali: Septic shock caused boxing legend’s death
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali died of "septic shock due to unspecified natural causes", his family has said. The three-time world heavyweight champion — one of the world's greatest sporting figures — died on Friday night at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. The 74-year-old had been suffering from a...
Pakistani woman dies after being set on fire for rejecting marriage proposal
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)An 18-year-old Pakistani schoolteacher died Wednesday from injuries after her body was set on fire for refusing a marriage proposal, police said. The perpetrators beat Maria Abbasi, then drenched her in petrol and set her body ablaze before leaving her for dead, her family members told. "Maria was...
US seeks death penalty over Charleston church shooting
The US justice department is seeking the death penalty in the case of the Charleston church shooting which claimed nine lives last year. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the "nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm" were factors in choosing the death penalty. Dylann Roof is charged with the...
Mullah Mansour: The trail of clues after Taliban leader’s death
The more we find out about Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour the more mysterious he becomes. US and Afghan officials say Mansour was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan's Balochistan province. But a passport found at the scene belonged to one Wali Mohammad, the pseudonym he supposedly used in Pakistan. Every clue about...
Nick Alexander: Inquest into death of Briton killed in Paris terror attack to begin
AN INQUEST hearing into the death of a Briton killed in the Paris attacks will begin today. Nick Alexander was in the Bataclan theatre when Islamic State gunmen stormed the building midway during a concert last year. The 35-year-old, from Colchester, Essex, had been selling merchandise for the popular US rock band Eagles of...
German couple tortured two women to death, police say
Police in Germany investigating the deaths of two women say they were the victims of a couple who held them hostage and tortured them. They say a man and his ex-wife placed dating advertisements to lure the women to their home. The suspects — Wilfried W, 46, and Angelika B, 47 — were arrested last Wednesday and...
China investigates search engine Baidu after student’s death
China has launched an investigation into search giant Baidu after the death of a student who tried an experimental cancer therapy he found online. Wei Zexi, who died last month from a rare form of cancer, had sought the treatment from a hospital that came top of the list on his Baidu web search. Baidu has come under fire for...
First US Zika death reported in Puerto Rico
The first known death in the US to the Zika virus has been recorded in Puerto Rico, say health officials. A 70-year-old man infected with the mosquito-borne virus died in February, Puerto Rico's health secretary said. The US territory has recorded more than 600 Zika cases, with 73 of those involving pregnant women. Zika has...
Bangladeshi university professor hacked to death in Rajshahi
A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to killings of secular bloggers and atheists by suspected Islamist extremists. AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was a professor of English at Rajshahi University in the country's north-west. He was attacked with machetes as he...
Prince death: ‘No sign’ it was suicide, sheriff says
There is "no reason to believe" that Prince's death was suicide, the sheriff of the Minnesota county where the singer had his home has said after a post-mortem examination. There was no sign of trauma on the body, Sheriff Jim Olson said, suggesting the singer had died alone. Prince, 57, was found dead in a lift on...
Bangladesh student Nazimuddin Samad hacked to death
A Bangladeshi law student who had expressed secular views online has been killed in the capital, Dhaka. Nazimuddin Samad was hacked with machetes at a traffic junction late on Wednesday and then shot, police said. The 28-year-old was reported to have been an organiser of the Ganajagran Manch, a secular campaigning group. A...