A gunman opened fire inside a Michigan church during a Sunday service before apparently setting the building ablaze, authorities said, killing at least four people and injuring eight others before police shot him. Hundreds of people were inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, about 80 kilometres north …
Read More »At least 12 dead in Vietnam from Typhoon Bualoi
Heavy rain and strong winds from Typhoon Bualoi flooded roads, knocked off roofs and caused at least 12 deaths in central Vietnam, before weakening to a tropical storm that moved into Laos on Monday, state media reported. The storm tore through communities, damaging houses, schools and power poles, sweeping away temporary …
Read More »Sonny Curtis, Crickets rocker and prolific songwriter behind Mary Tyler Moore TV show theme, dead at 88
Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ‘n’ roller who wrote the raw classic I Fought the Law and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?” as the writer-crooner of the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show has died at 88. Curtis was inducted into the Rock and …
Read More »Robert Redford, famed actor and director, dead at 89
Actor, director and producer Robert Redford, who was both the quintessential handsome Hollywood leading man and an influential supporter of independent films through his Sundance Institute, has died. He was 89. His publicist Cindi Berger confirmed the death to CBC News on Tuesday, saying he passed away in his home in Sundance in the mountains …
Read More »Ricky Hatton, former world boxing champion, dead at 46
Ricky Hatton, the former boxing world champion who rose to become one of the most popular fighters in the sport, has died. He was 46. Hatton was found dead at his home in Greater Manchester, Britain’s Press Association reported Sunday. Police said they were not treating the death as suspicious. …
Read More »In Ukraine, the agonizing effort to identify the war dead overwhelms forensic workers
In a small reception room at a hospital in Dnipro, in south-central Ukraine, Viktoria Lants struggled to look at the computer screen as a forensic worker shuffled through photos of the remains catalogued in the overwhelmed morgue. Some images were of badly damaged bodies, military clothing and a pocket knife. When her family was led …
Read More »Rick Davies, founder and mainstay with hit band Supertramp, dead at 81
Rick Davies, the keyboardist and singer whose ad in a British music paper sparked the formation of Supertramp, one of the most commercially successful bands of the 1970s and early ’80s, has died. He was 81. The band said on their website that Davies died Saturday after having been diagnosed with multiple …
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Read More »At least 1,000 dead after landslide in Sudan’s Darfur wipes out village
A landslide wiped out a village in Sudan ‘s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent history, a rebel group controlling the area said late Monday. The tragedy happened Sunday in the village of Tarasin in …
Read More »Canada’s Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, dead at 84
He won over 3,000 career races, but Ron Turcotte will forever be remembered for the three he registered aboard the legendary Secretariat 52 years ago. Turcotte guided Secretariat to an emphatic American Triple Crown sweep in 1973. So dominant was that performance that Secretariat still holds the records he set …
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