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"Mdm Goh's family asks that their privacy be respected during this trying period. Deepest condolences to them. Wishing them strength to cope with the loss of Mdm Goh. RIP." Mr Murali, who landed in Berlin on…

NEW YORK – Paul Volcker, the towering former Federal Reserve chairman who tamed U.S. inflation in the 1980s and decades later inspired tough Wall Street reforms in the wake of the global financial crisis, died Monday at the age of…

One moment, he was answering questions in a job interview. The next, he was slumped onto a desk.  The 36-year-old man was rushed to a nearby hospital in Hangzhou, China, on Nov 26 — but it was too late to save him.  Despite the…

"My child is only four months old. She just went to the hospital because of a cough, now she's gone," a mother in Xi An, China, grieved. Her daughter allegedly died as a result of a massage session on Nov 30, reported Hua Shang Daily.…

She was crossing the road aiming to catch the last bus home when she was hit and run over by a taxi. Madam Tay Kiat Eng, 65, a part-time KFC worker, died en route to Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Police told The New Paper yesterday that the…

Mental As Anything founding member and songwriter Andrew “Greedy” Smith has died after suffering a heart attack in his car. He was 63. Band manager Grant Bartlett on Tuesday confirmed Smith had suffered a heart attack while driving in…

Mental As Anything founding member and songwriter Andrew "Greedy" Smith has died after suffering a heart attack in his car. He was aged 63.Band manager Grant Bartlett on Tuesday confirmed to AAP that Smith had suffered a heart attack…

BRAZILIAN surfer Leo Neves has died while competing in Saquarema over the weekend.The two-time national champion, 40, suffered a suspected heart attack during the semi-final of Brazil’s Triple Crown competition. The incident took place…

Shelley Morrison, an actress with a 50-year career who was best known for playing a memorable maid on Will & Grace, has died age 83.Publicist Lori DeWaal says Morrison died on Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from…

A man has died after allegedly consuming a cocktail of illicit drugs at a music festival in New South Wales’s Riverina region. The 24-year-old man was brought to a medical tent about 12.45am on Sunday at the Strawberry Fields music…

A Schoolie who died after falling from a high-rise balcony on the Gold Coast has been identified as Charlie Scott, as his worrying final social media post is revealed.The 18-year-old, from Montmorency, northeast of Melbourne, had been…

SINGAPORE - Two people here have contracted the C. canimorsus infection since 2017 but both have since recovered. The rare disease made headlines on Wednesday (Nov 27) when a German man died from the infection after being licked by his…

TOKYO - Yasuhiro Nakasone, one of Japan’s longest reigning premiers and known for his friendship with Ronald Reagan, has died at the age of 101, a top ruling party official said on Friday (Nov 29).   Nakasone, prime minister from 1982 to…

The twin sister of a baby girl who died at a Brisbane home has also died in hospital.Police and paramedics were called about 6am on Wednesday to the Sunnybank Hills home where one of the six-week-old babies was confirmed dead.Her twin…

A Hong Kong patient died in a medical blunder when a special tube used for feeding him and taking medicine to his stomach through the nose was wrongly inserted into his lung. The incident took place at Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole…

Last year the Indigenous leader Sam Watson was asked to reflect on the legacy of his five decades of radical activism, which began handing out how-to-vote cards at the 1967 referendum. Watson, who died on Wednesday aged 67, said that…

SEATTLE – William Doyle Ruckelshaus, who famously quit his job in the U.S. Justice Department rather than carry out President Richard Nixon’s order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal, has died. He…

The Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital in Tai Po says it is extremely concerned about a recent medical blunder, where a patient died after been fed through a tube that had been inserted into one of his lungs instead of his…

Taipei, Nov. 27 (CNA) A Norwegian missionary doctor who established Taiwan's first nursing home for children suffering from polio in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan in 1961, has passed away in Norway at the age of 93, according to…

An Aeroflot pilot reportedly died from a heart attack while piloting a domestic flight in Russia on Sunday morning. Other crew members apparently helmed an emergency landing to seek immediate medical treatment for the first officer, who…