July 14, 2009
The traditional throwing of a bride's bouquet for luck ended in disaster. The bride and groom had hired a small plane to fly past and throw the bouquet to a line of women guests. However, the flowers were sucked into the plane's engine causing it to catch fire and explode.
November 26, 2008
Texas executes its fifth teenage offender at 22 minutes after midnight, after his last request for bubble gum had been refused and his final claim of innocence had been forever silenced.
November 22, 2008
Argentine man kills himself on TV.
September 09, 2008
I heard a huge bang, I turned around, I saw a man on top of a car. At first I thought it was some traffic accident but there were no cars around, just the parked car with the man lying on the bonnet. I looked up and saw two men looking out the window smiling. They were Chinese like the man on the bonnet.
A boy aged 12 stabs his six-month-old stepbrother to death in his cot and cuts off his hand. He is since in a prison hospital, where it is decided that he should not be left alone with female members of staff after he asked a woman who worked there for sex, then asked if there was "anyone else available" when his request was refused. He is however allowed to build a vast collection of horror and pornographic DVDs.
A mother murders her one-month-old daughter by burning her to death in a microwave oven. She confessed to putting her daughter in the microwave and switching it on, because she was afraid that her boyfriend would leave her if he discovered that he was not the baby's father.
June 28, 2007
A professional wrestler has been found dead at his family home in the US along with his wife and son in what officials say appears to be a murder-suicide.
June 09, 2007
A medical examiner blames a 17-year-old girl's death on the use of too much muscle cream, the kind used to soothe aching legs after exercise.
May 17, 2007
A man is jailed for life after admitting he murdered his mother's lesbian partner and dumped her body in a coal bunker. Teresa, faced with losing her long term partner in the most violent of deaths in a murder carried out by her son, takes her own life a few months later.
April 28, 2007
Emilio is 17 months old and has a rare genetic disorder that's ravaging his central nervous system. He cannot see, speak, or eat. A ventilator breathes for him in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Austin Children's Hospital, where he's been since December. Without the ventilator, Emilio would die within hours.
April 24, 2007
Abu Sayyaf militants decapitate seven hostages and sent their heads to troops on the southern Philippine island of Jolo.
February 18, 2007
Police called to a Long Island man's house discover the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set.
A sack of baby skeletons is found behind a hospital.
January 19, 2007
the former frontman of rock group Thin Lizzy dies 11 days after collapsing from a drink and drug binge.
September 01, 2006
The oldest woman in the world dies at age 116. She was born the same year as Charlie Chaplin, and was married the day the United States entered World War I.
A self-assured tennis diva reveals that her struggle to return to No. 1, a position she once undisputedly held, has more to do with mental than with physical rehab. The murder of her half-sister troubles her deeply, a 31-year-old mother of three young children, the unintended victim of a gang shooting.
August 29, 2006
The authorities try to discover how a boat carrying the bodies of 11 men was found adrift off the coast. Police found a note left by one of the dying men. In the note, the man speaks of his family, then ends the note by saying: "Please excuse me and goodbye".
February 10, 2006
A man dies after struggling with the officers when they attempted to subdue him as he meandered drunkenly through the streets wearing only pajama pants and insulting passersby.
January 12, 2006
11 miners try to shelter from poisonous air in one of the farthest reaches of the mine. One of them takes a paper and a pencil from his pocket: in faint sentences of farewell and religious conviction, he lets his family know that death, as it approached, came gently.
When asked if the drug had deepened his understanding of death, he appeared mildly startled and said no. "I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all".
December 14, 2005
After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it and screen it at week's end; eternity follows.
November 12, 2005
That day, Death stopped killing. That day no one died. And from then on, people did not die any more. They just went on living, getting older and older, and morticians, insurance companies and the church went bankrupt.
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