Credit: Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania / CC BY 2.0 Over 2,000 years ago, a Greek philosopher named Chrysippus of Soli became the subject of one of history’s most peculiar death stories.

Officials arrested eight hostel workers in Laos on Monday for allegedly poisoning travelers with methanol, according to reports from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Tourists reported illnesses ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Below, we look back at those we lost in 2024. Jim Abrahams, 80 Along with his boyhood friends, Jerry and David Zucker, Jim Abrahams is ...

Melbourne teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, both aged 19, were among six foreign tourists who died last week after falling ill while staying at the hostel. The best friends were evacuated ...

Former National Party Minister Nikki Kaye has died at age 44. It’s understood she died at the weekend after a long battle with cancer. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. Friends told NZME ...

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The Strip That Down singer was one of the member of a wildly popular boy band, One Direction, from 2010 to 2016. He died on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, after falling from the balcony of his hotel ...

A toddler who died after being found unconscious in a car in a Far North Queensland council car park had been there "quite some hours", police say. The two-year-old girl was found in a vehicle ...

“He died of a broken heart,” says Larie Pidgeon, 45, his former sister-in-law and Hannah's aunt. Ryan Kobayashi, 58, was recently retired and had joined his extended family searching for his ...

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Even though she was excited to find her dream dress for her big day, she had always imagined doing so with her mother, June Kiely, who died in 2015. Luckily, she thought of a way to pay tribute to ...