Obituaries

Three men have been arrested after a father-of-one was murdered in a suspected case of mistaken identity outside a pub.

Daughter Rosemary Pollock said the centenarian author of more than 120 books died Dec. 3 at a nursing home near her house in Lanreath, southwest England.

Large of groups of police officers are marching in a procession to honour a Toronto police officer who died on the job.

The name of a worker who died after falling from a train car at Tilden Mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been released.

A week after four people died in a New York commuter train derailment, two federal lawmakers proposed Sunday that trains nationwide be outfitted with cameras pointed at engineers and at the tracks.

Mark O'Prey and Gary Arthur were enjoying a night out in Clutha bar when a police helicopter crashed through on Friday November 29. They were among nine people who died.

Character actress Kate Williamson, who appeared in such films as "Disclosure," ''Dahmer," ''Dream Lover" and "Racing With the Moon," has died at age 82 after a lengthy illness, said her manager, Judy Fox.

Thousands of souped-up cars converged on a Southern California business park Sunday where eight days earlier actor Paul Walker and a friend were killed in a fiery car crash.

Friends, fans and high-performance car enthusiasts are heading to a Los Angeles suburb for a memorial for "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker, who died in a high-speed car crash in the area.

Ontario schools should allow students with asthma to carry puffers with them in case of emergencies, says the mother of a 12-year-old boy who died when no one could get his inhaler in time because it was locked in the principal's office.

American survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many in their 90s, gathered Saturday for the 72nd anniversary of the attack that took the lives of more than 2,000 of their peers and thrust the United States into World War II.

When the Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise aerial attack on U.S. Navy vessels in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Howard Bender swung into action, directing anti-aircraft defenses against bombs and torpedoes raining down on his battleship, the USS Maryland.

A former Oxfordshire resident who made death threats against South East MEP Nigel Farage after the two were involved in a plane crash has died.

Idris Elba has revealed he put down the phone when he got the call asking him to play Nelson Mandela on the big screen.

The pod of pilot whales stranded in Florida's Everglades National Park has not been spotted today, a spokesperson for the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration said.

Maybe you saw her walking with her cane as she made her rounds from her small apartment on the south edge of downtown.

Organized in 1837, the Rohrersville Cornet Band is the longest-running community band in Maryland and the group is representative of a form of entertainment that was popular before television and radio.

Kamaljeet Bidwall was found dead at her home in Avocet Way, Bicester, on April 24 when police broke in after her concerned colleagues called them.

A lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving after an incident in Brixton in which a 99-year-old woman died Police and paramedics were called to Stockwell Park Walk, Brixton, at 11.35am on November 27 following reports that a vehicle had hit a pedestrian near the junction with Brixton Road.

Turk led the Golden Eagles for 20 seasons from 1976 to 1996 and finished with a school-record 301 victories, two NCAA tournament appearances and six NIT appearances, including one NIT championship.