Paint helps prove identity in 2001 death at Burger King

It took more than 11 years, but police have finally identified a man who dropped dead in a Burger King on Laskin Road. His name was Samuel Ray Barnard. He was 58, lived in the 600 block of Hunter...

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Brazil nightclub fire claims new victim, death toll at 238

A 20-year-old man died on Tuesday from injuries sustained during a January 27 fire at a nightclub in southern Brazil, bringing the death toll from the disaster to 238 and adding to concerns it may...

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Rewa: Rice mill wall collapse leaves 9 dead, 12 hurt

Nine persons were killed and eighteen others grievously injured after a wall under construction in a warehouse belonging to the brother of a Madhya Pradesh minister collapsed on Monday afternoon. All...

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The atrocities of the Sinai Desert

The desert is located on the Egyptian Peninsula, spanning to the neighbouring border of Israel. African refugees, fleeing their homelands due to various forms of persecution, offer money to Bedouin...

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Operation Photo Rescue Restores Hurricane Sandy Victims' Photos

Of all the images of Superstorm Sandy's destruction, the ones that linger for Florence Catania are the torn, stained pictures that hung on her walls. Her mother's decades-old wedding portrait,...

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Nigeria: No justice for the dead

Hundreds of fatal police shootings which each year leave families anguished and bereaved are not being investigated effectively because of a failure of the Nigerian justice system, Amnesty International...

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Microsoft, Israeli researchers develop disaster prediction software

Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data. The research comes from Microsoft...

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Bridge collapse victims to get equal compensation

The government will equally compensate the families of 10 people who died in a fatal highway bridge collapse in Henan province, the website of Dahe Daily reported on Monday, citing officials at the...

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