Chinese tycoon Wang Jian, whose sprawling conglomerate HNA Group owns a host of foreign assets, has died after a falling off a wall while on holiday in southern France, police and his company said Wednesday. Wang suffered the fatal accident on Tuesday in the picturesque hillside village of Bonnieux after climbing onto a parapet, either to see the view of the valley below or to have his photograph taken, local security sources told AFP.

A three-year-old girl has died after a mass stabbing occurred at her birthday party in Boise Saturday. Boise Police say the girl was flown to Utah for treatment of injuries she received in Saturday night’s attack. "It is with deep sorrow we share the news that she has passed away today," Boise Police said in a statement. One child has been treated and released from the hospital according to police.

For the second time in barely more than a year, an Indonesian villager has been swallowed whole by a python. Wa Tiba, 54, left her home on Muna island to visit her cornfield Thursday night, according to the Jakarta Post. The field was about a half mile from her house, surrounded by cliffs, caves and a certain number of reticulated pythons, the longest snakes in the world.

A popular young man fatally stabbed himself in the chest mistakenly believing the vest he wore was stab-proof, his inquest heard. Jordan Easton was in the kitchen at one of his friends’ parents on 23 August last year – just five days after his 22nd birthday – when he turned a knife on himself to demonstrate the “stab-proof” nature of the abdominal protection he had on. He suffered a chest stab wound, and was taken to the University Hospital of North Tees, in Stockton.

The number of people who died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria was at least 70 times higher than the official death toll, according to a study published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study estimates that 5,740 people died as a result of the storm, rather than the 64 people counted in the Puerto Rican government’s official death toll, last updated on Dec. 4. The government’s count came under suspicion first by the Puerto Rico Center for Investigative Reporting and BuzzFeed News just days after the hurricane devastated the island.

Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez traveled 1,500 miles to the United States, hoping to find a job and a better future. Shortly after she set foot in Texas, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed her. Gomez Gonzalez's shooting Wednesday drew international attention after a bystander posted video of the aftermath on Facebook Live, showing her lying on the ground, bleeding. Authorities changed their account of the incident, adding to the controversy at a time when the White House has cracked down on illegal immigration.

16-year-old teenage girl in New Taipei City leaps 9 stories to her death after being sexually assaulted.16-year-old teenage girl in New Taipei City falls nine stories to her death after claiming that she had been sexually assaulted by a 20-year-old man.

A former Playboy Playmate has died after apparently jumping from the 25th floor of a Manhattan hotel with her seven-year-old son, who also perished, the Associated Press reports. According to the AP, Stephanie Adams and her son Vincent checked into the Gotham Hotel’s penthouse suite Thursday night, and were found on the second-floor balcony shortly after 8 a.m. Friday morning.

All Erika Zak wants to do is play with her daughter on the playground. Take her to the zoo. Walk her to school. She's never been able to be the mother she longs to be. At 38, Erika is dying.

A baby girl is hospitalized after being hit on the head by a softball. McKenna Hovenga, 7-weeks-old, was hit while her dad was playing in Shell Rock, Iowa. She is now being treated at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., according to the Waverly Courier. She has a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. She has suffered several seizures, according to a Facebook page set up by her aunt.

An award-winning South African filmmaker has died after being head-butted by a giraffe while filming at a safari lodge.

Police say two high school students have died in an apparent drowning in a North Texas reservoir. Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds says Oscar Rios, 18, and Julio Espinosa-Guerrero, 17, died Monday while swimming with a group at Wheeler Branch Park, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Deeds says the Granbury High School students had skipped school for "senior skip day." The sheriff says some students tried to rescue the drowning teens before first responders arrived.

An 11Alive investigation uncovered a Georgia nursing home resident died from a scabies infestation. A forensic pathologist who reviewed the case estimates millions of parasitic mites essentially ate her alive over several months or possibly years. According to a pending lawsuit filed by the family, 93-year-old Rebecca Zeni died in 2015 from scabies at the facility. The autopsy report shows the cause of death as “septicemia due to crusted scabies.” State health officials were notified about a scabies outbreak at the nursing home multiple times, but did not inspect the LaFayette, G. facility.

A former MasterChef star has died aged 29 after collapsing during the London Marathon. Matt Campbell fell at the 22.5-mile mark and was given medical treatment from race doctors but died later in hospital. His family paid tribute to him as an "inspirational son and brother". Mr Campbell, who reached the semi-finals of MasterChef: The Professionals last year, was running the marathon in memory of his father, Martin.

A homeless man has been charged with murder after a "wonderful" father was fatally stabbed in the neck as his five-year-old daughter sat on his lap at a crowded restaurant. Anthony Mele, 35, was eating dinner with his wife and daughter at the beachside Aloha Steakhouse in Ventura, California, on Wednesday evening when he was allegedly attacked by Jamal Jackson. Jackson, 49, is said to have been followed out of the restaurant by other diners and a staff member...

Two 911 calls show that a Cincinnati teenager pleaded for help as he was crushed to death by the seat in his van Tuesday afternoon in a parking lot near his school. Kyle Jacob Plush, 16, was found dead by his father about six hours after he made the first 911 call, according to WCPO in Cincinnati. A preliminary autopsy report indicated that he died of asphyxia due to compression of his chest.

Belgian cyclist Michael Goolaerts died in hospital on Sunday at the age of 23, hours after suffering heart failure during the gruelling Paris-Roubaix one-day classic race in France. "It is with unimaginable sadness that we have to communicate the passing of our rider and friend Michael Goolaerts," the rider's Veranda's Willems team said in a statement on Twitter.

The family of a Humboldt Broncos player from Lethbridge who was injured in a tragic bus crash Friday night says Logan Boulet is on life support – and will donate his organs to six people in need. Boulet, a defencemen, was on his way to a semi-final game against the Nipawin Hawks when a tractor trailer and the bus collided, killing 15 people and injuring over a dozen more.

The RCMP confirmed fatalities and a "number of injuries" in a collision involving a junior hockey team's bus in Saskatchewan on Friday, with rescue efforts ongoing late into the evening. It was not immediately clear how many people were killed and injured in the crash about 30 kilometres north of Tisdale, Sask. The Nipawin Hawks of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League say the crash involved the team bus of the Humboldt Broncos, who were on their way to Nipawin for Game 5 of its SJHL semifinal series.

Indian police say a 16-day-old baby boy believed to have been snatched by a monkey has been found drowned in a well. The infant was sleeping under a mosquito net at his home in the eastern state of Odisha on Friday (Match 30) when he was taken by a rhesus macaque, a species with a reddish-pink face common across India.