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Top Canadian squash player killed in cycling accident
One of Canada’s top squash players has died after being hit by a car while cycling in Toronto.
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4 Dead in Metro-North Train Derailment in the Bronx
At least four people were killed after a Metro-North Railroad train derailed Sunday morning in the Bronx along the Hudson River, officials said. A total of 67 people were injured — 11 critically — a New York Fire Department spokesman, Jim Long, said.
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Lockerbie bombing: 'It took 24 years to find out my son had died'
Carol King-Eckersley's son was one of the 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan-Am flight 103 over Lockerbie but it was only this year that she found out he had died.
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Pregnant teacher and unborn baby die suddenly three weeks before due date
Catherine Moston, 35, was teaching classes when she was suddenly became unwell and later had to be rushed to hospital...
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Woman dies as escalator catches her scarf on Montreal Metro
A commuter has died after her scarf got snagged in an escalator at a Montreal Metro station and strangled her. The unidentified 48-year-old woman was found dead at the bottom of the moving staircase at Fabre station in the north of the Canadian city. Her hair was also apparently caught in the escalator in Thursday morning's incident.
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"Dead" Man Wakes Up In Funeral Home Right Before Embalming
A Mississippi funeral home says it found a man alive and kicking in a body bag hours after the coroner pronounced him dead. Walter Williams was pronounced dead Wednesday night after his pulse stopped, but funeral home employees found him trying to kick through his body bag Thursday morning.
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10 killed when truck crosses freeway, rams into students' bus in California
A FedEx truck crossed a freeway and slammed head-on into a bus carrying students in Northern California, killing 10 people, authorities said Friday. The collision Thursday evening killed both drivers, five students and three chaperones, said Lt. Bill Carpenter with the California Highway Patrol. At least 34 people were taken to local hospitals, authorities said.
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Dozens reported dead in Mexico bus crash
A passenger bus slammed into a broken-down truck and burst into flames, killing at least 36 people Sunday in southern Mexico, the Veracruz state government reported. Both state and federal officials said that four people survived the crash, which occurred shortly after midnight in the southeastern state of Veracruz.
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2 dead, several missing after avalanche on Mount Everest
Two Sherpa guides were killed and seven others were missing Friday after a high-altitude avalanche on Mt. Everest, officials said. A group of about 50 people, mostly Nepali Sherpas, were hit by the avalanche at more than 20,000 feet, according to Tilak Ram Pandey, with the mountaineering department of the tourism ministry.
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Nepal guides killed as avalanche hits Everest
At least 12 Nepalese guides preparing routes up Mount Everest for commercial climbers have been killed by an avalanche in the deadliest mountaineering accident ever on the world's highest peak, officials and rescuers have said. The men were among a large party of Sherpas carrying tents, food and ropes who headed out in bright sunshine in an early morning expedition on Friday ahead of the main climbing season starting later this month, according to the AFP news agency.
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More Than 40 People Killed in Bus Accident in Pakistan
At least 42 people were killed Sunday morning in southern Pakistan after a bus slammed into a tractor-trailer in one of the worst traffic accidents in this country in recent years, officials and rescue workers said.
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The Business of Everest: What It Pays to Risk It All
In the wake of Friday’s devastating accident, in which an avalanche killed 16 Nepali guides 19,000 feet up the southern face of Mount Everest, dozens of Sherpas and sherpas are packing their tents and leaving Everest Base Camp. Government officials are trying to persuade some of the guides to stay on, but most have called off the season to mourn their brethren and figure out how to restructure their profitable but deadly industry.
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Obama to Visit Arkansas to See Tornado Destruction
President Obama will visit Arkansas on Wednesday to see the damage caused by last week's tornado that killed 16. Obama and Sen. Mark Pryor will meet with families and first responders, the Washington Post reports. Pryor, a Democratic Senator, said that disaster-relief funds are helpful, but "there's more we can do to give Arkansans the help they need."
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Civilian diver dies in South Korea ferry search
A civilian diver searching for bodies in the South Korean ferry that sank last month has died, authorities say. Officials said the 53-year-old, known only by his surname Lee, became unconscious and later died in hospital. He is the first fatality among divers searching the Sewol ferry, which sank on 16 April with 476 people on board.
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Six missing Langley dogs died of heatstroke in back of walker’s truck
An almost week's long search for six missing dogs in Langley has ended in tragedy.
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Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired Over Tasteless Comments on Santa Barbara Shooting
Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam has been fired from the annotation service after posting appalling comments on the memoir of mass murderer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in a shooting spree earlier this week.
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Pimento Couple Froze to Death
The Vigo County Coroner says two people found dead in their Pimento home earlier this spring froze to death. Wednesday Dr. Susan Amos told NBC 2 News Daniel and Donna Young died from hypothermia.
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In the Valley of Fire
How did a well-trained crew of professional hotshots come to abandon their designated safety zone and walk into a 40-foot-high wall of fire?
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9 killed as building collapses in India
Rescuers search for workers buried in the rubbles of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains on the outskirts of Chennai, India, June 28, 2014. The death toll rose to nine in the 11 storey-building collapse in Chennai of Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Saturday while nearly 40 people are feared trapped under the debris. Police said dozens of workers have been pulled out so far and the search is continuing.
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20 Years Later, Legacy of a Deadly Colorado Wildfire Endures
In 1994, the South Canyon Fire killed 14 firefighters and changed how wildfires are fought. Then last year in Arizona, tragedy struck again.
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