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Security forces in Cambodia have killed a teenage girl during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in the latest of a series of violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. Reports said that during a clash between up to 400 soldiers and police and villagers in Kratie province in the east [...]

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A 15-year-old youth is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of stabbing a student to death in a row over conkers. The youth was found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering architecture student Steven Grisales, 21. Mr Grisales died after he went over to remonstrate with three boys throwing conkers still in [...]

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A mother whose baby died after being deprived of oxygen when he was born has told an inquest that she is “tortured” by the memory of his birth. Noah Tyler died 10 months after suffering irreversible brain damage at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, a pathologist said. A midwife admitted making “catastrophic mistakes” [...]

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A mother-of-four who killed her children and then herself early on Tuesday morning said she wanted to be cremated with them, in a harrowing text message sent to a friend hours earlier. Sheriff’s deputies in Brevard County, Florida said 33-year-old Tanya Thomas shot her four children, who ranged in age from 12 to 17. They [...]

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A schizophrenic who knifed a schoolboy to death and wounded three other pupils after failing to take his medication was today jailed for at least 20 years. Serif Aslan stabbed Kasey Gordon, 15, in the heart in front of horrified shoppers. Aslan, 34, who was free to roam the streets despite a long history of [...]

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The global mortality rate for women giving birth has fallen by half over the past two decades, a UN report released today said. While there has been considerable progress, more work remains because a woman dies of pregnancy-related complications every two minutes, the report said. The report from the World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s [...]

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Terminally-ill Australian Shaun Wilson-Miller, 17, has become an internet sensation after accidentally posting a heartbreaking and inspirational farewell message to the world on YouTube. Shaun, who has been told by doctors he does not have long left to live after his body rejected a SECOND heart transplant, was only trying to post his tragic goodbye [...]

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A “wicked and controlling” man who murdered his “fun-loving, mischievous” stepson has been ordered to serve at least 17 years in prison. Elvis Lee, 34, was found guilty yesterday of murdering Tyler Whelan, five. Lee admitted he kicked and bit Tyler on the day of his death but denied murder. The kick was so hard [...]

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A man accused of murdering his wife said their children would soon forget her as relatives waited for news about her disappearance, a trial has heard. Nat Fraser, 53, denies murdering his wife Arlene. Mrs Fraser was 33 when she disappeared from her home in New Elgin, Moray, on 28 April 1998. Her father, Hector [...]

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Levi Brailsford’s grandmother was reportedly driving when she heard him unbuckle the harness in his car seat and friends say she was trying to pull over to re-fasten the buckle when the door opened and he fell out.   Police are investigating the possibility that Levi was then crushed under the wheels of the car [...]

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A workman who cut the base of a lamp post that later fell, fatally injuring a baby, wishes he had died instead, an inquest heard today. Tommy Hollis suffered severe head injuries when he was struck by the falling lamp post as he was sleeping in a pram being pushed by his nanny in Chiswick, [...]

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Like most loving parents, Chris and Kathy Coker were anxious when their son Bradley embarked on his gap-year trip around the world. Even though they knew he was sensible, it was hard not to worry about what could go wrong. And so, the Cokers recall, they breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that [...]

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The 14-year-old half-brother of six children who died in a Derby fire says the family is “struggling” to come to terms with their loss. Five children aged between five and 10 died in the early hours of Friday after the blaze at a property on Victory Road in the Allenton area. A sixth child, 13-year-old [...]

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A 15-year-old schoolgirl died of tuberculosis after a series of doctor errors missed the chance to detect and cure her disease, with her GP claiming she was ‘lovesick’, an inquest heard today. Alina Sarag died in January last year after a GP allegedly advised her that her physical deterioration was due to mental health problems. [...]

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A mother from Wandsworth who has been charged with the murder of her two children suffered a tragedy four years earlier, it has emerged. Felicia Boots’ brother Scott Sinclair committed suicide after suffering severe depression. On Saturday the 34-year-old banker’s wife, appeared at South Western Magistrates’ Court, in Battersea, charged with the murders of her [...]

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A boy and a girl rescued from the River Avon after a boating accident in which their father and brother died are still being treated in hospital. The family’s rowing boat capsized in strong waters at a weir in Barford on Saturday afternoon. The bodies of the man, named locally as Julian Mynott, and boy [...]

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A 13-year-old boy has died in hospital days after five of his siblings were killed in a house fire in Derby. Duwayne Philpott and his brothers and sisters were asleep upstairs in their Allenton home when the blaze began. Their father Mick Philpott, who is believed to have 17 children, made “valiant attempts” to save [...]

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Felicia Boots’ brother Scott Sinclair committed suicide in his apartment in Toronto, Canada four years ago, neighbours of Mrs Boots’s parents told the Telegraph. On Saturday, Mrs Boots, 34, appeared at Lavender Hill Magistrates Court, in Battersea, London, charged with the murders of her 10-week-old son Mason and 14-month-old daughter Lily. She was remanded in [...]

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Zoe Clark-Coates remembers the moment a scan showed that her second pregnancy, like her first, had ended. “I’ll never forget the midwife’s face as she looked at the screen. She fell completely silent and I started screaming – a terrible, almost primal reaction over which I had no control. Looking back, I feel sorry for [...]

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A father out celebrating his daughter’s birthday was brutally knifed to death in front of his horrified family just because he asked if a crying child was alright, a court was told yesterday. Alan Smith, 63, was stabbed at least five times as he sat with his partner, daughter and son-in-law in a cafe in [...]

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The parents of murdered American teenager Trayvon Martin have called on British people to stop racially profiling each other during an emotionally charged visit to London in which they met with Stephen Lawrence’s mother Doreen. The remarkable meeting brought together two families on different sides of the Atlantic who both suffered the tragedy of having [...]

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Police have been extra 24-hours to continue questioning Felicia Boots about the deaths of her 10-week-old son Tej and 14-month-old daughter Lily-Syke, whose lifeless bodies were discovered by their father Jeffrey at their £1.2 million London home on Wednesday evening. But friends said the 34-year-old jewellery designer had been in a “bad way” after her first [...]

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A schoolboy found dead after taking a lethal cocktail of heroin, alcohol and an anti-depressant probably obtained the drugs from his family, an inquest was told. Drew Quinlan, 13, was found by his grandfather face down on a sofa at his family’s £4 million house in Richmond as he tried to wake him to go to [...]

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A choirboy may have accidentally strangled himself during an experiment to improve his singing by restricting his breath, an inquest heard yesterday. Judge’s son Edward Morgan-Gooch, 12, was concerned he wouldn’t be able to hit high notes when his voice broke. His mother, Julia, 43, had tucked him up in bed but found him lifeless [...]

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Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a baby boy, who is believed to have fallen from a moving car. West Midlands Police said the incident took place nearly a week ago, at the junction of Green Lane and Talfourd Street, in Small Heath, Birmingham. The 10-month-old from Birmingham, suffered serious head injuries [...]

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The mother of Edward Morgan-Gooch, 12, went to turn off his bedside light when she found him sitting lifeless on his bedroom floor with a belt tightened around his neck. Her barrister husband Christopher Morgan who is also a Recorder at Norwich Crown Court tried to resuscitate him, but he was later declared dead in [...]

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The mother of Edward Morgan-Gooch, 12, went to turn off his bedside light when she found him sitting lifeless on his bedroom floor with a belt tightened around his neck. Her barrister husband Christopher Morgan who is also a Recorder at Norwich Crown Court tried to resuscitate him, but he was later declared dead in [...]

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A father returned from work to find his two young children had been smothered to death and his wife had apparently tried to slit her wrists. Neighbours heard investment banker Jeff Boots, 34, cry ‘Oh my God, oh my God’ as he desperately tried to save his ten-week-old son and 14-month-old daughter Lily Skye. He [...]

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Jemima Layzell, who went to Taunton School in Somerset, had told her parents she wanted her body to help save others in the event of her death. The teenager collapsed at home in Horton, Somerset, and died in hospital on March 14.   Her heart has gone to a five–year–old boy, a 14–year–old was given [...]

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Most deaths of young children around the world are from mainly preventable infectious causes, experts have said. A US team, writing in the Lancet, looked at mortality figures from 2010. They found two-thirds of the 7.6m children who died before their fifth birthday did so due to infectious causes – and pneumonia was found to [...]

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Adam Mayes, 35, shot himself in Union County, Mississippi, FBI Special Agent Joel Siskovic said. “The girls are safe. He is deceased,” he said. Authorities say Mayes killed Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her oldest daughter Adrienne Bain, 14, on April 27, the day they went missing from their Tennessee home, and their bodies were found [...]

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The BBC has learned that the Western Health Trust is to carry out a formal review of the treatment and care of a baby who died from pseudomonas. Caolan Burke died from the infection in Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry when he was 10 days old. The family’s solicitor said they could not understand why a separate [...]

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A toddler has died after being mauled by her grandparents’ dog and her grandmother was shot when she tried to rescue her. The 16-month-old was savaged in the back yard at a house in La Cruces and a neighbour fired a shot to try and kill the Pit Bull but instead hit the grandmother in [...]

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A privately educated schoolboy was found dead on the sofa of his family’s £4million townhouse after taking a cocktail of drugs and alcohol, an inquest heard yesterday. Drew Quinlan, 13, was found face down on the settee of his grandfather’s  four-storey home in Richmond, South-West London. He had consumed a toxic mixture of anti-depressants belonging [...]

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My father died recently and my brother has moved in with my mother, and has been living there for six months. He has put his own house up for sale. I live in my own house. Our parents will split everything 50/50 between my brother and me. When our mother passes away, will my brother [...]

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Maurice Sendak, American born author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83. Over a career that began in the late 1940s he illustrated more than 100 books and wrote more than 20, but it was Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963, that made his name internationally, selling [...]

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A war widow has revealed for the first time how her children are still suffering after losing their father more than two years ago. Lance Corporal Darren Hicks, 29, from Mousehole, West Cornwall, was killed by a landmine in Helmand province of Afghanistan, leaving his wife Katie to bring up Henry, then three, and Daisy, [...]

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A traumatised boy of seven was being comforted last night after his mother was stabbed to death just days after telling friends she was expecting a baby. Saiba Khatoon, 26, was knifed at her family home after revealing she was almost four months pregnant. The alarm was raised when her son was woken by a [...]

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The two wives of a fallen soldier sat in the front row at his today funeral after it came to light following his death that he was married to both of them at the same time. But the relationship between the two women has turned ugly after the soldier’s first wife received the folded flag [...]

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Maurice Sendak, who died on Tuesday, was one of the few – and rare – writers who truly wrote for children. Not to entertain their parents, or to improve their social skills – he told the stories that children live themselves, wobbling on the uncomfortable brink between dreams, imagination and reality, where truth is whatever [...]

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Tributes have poured in for a teenage girl who was killed in a campsite tragedy thought to have been caused by a disposable barbecue. Devastated friends set up a Facebook page dedicated to the schoolgirl, named locally as Hannah Thomas-Jones, who was pronounced dead at a Shropshire campsite after suffering a cardiac arrest at around [...]

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Devastated friends paid tribute to the popular teenager on social networking site Facebook. A page set up in dedication to hockey-mad Hannah called ‘RIP Hannah Thomas Jones. You will never be forgotten’ had attracted over 200 ‘likes’ yesterday afternoon (Mon).   Friend Shelby Lloyd wrote: “R.I.P Hannah you will be sadly missed bye all of your [...]

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Sharlotte Hydorn, a retired science teacher, pleaded guilty in December to a federal charge of failing to file income tax returns from 2007 through 2010, a period during which investigators said at least seven customers used her kits to kill themselves. Prosecutors said Ms Hydorn sold about 1,300 of the do-it-yourself asphyxiation hoods during those [...]

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The mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne last night backed the Daily Mail’s campaign for an automatic block on online pornography. Sara Payne said she feared easy access to hardcore images on the web could encourage perverts to turn their fantasies into reality. The campaigner, whose eight-year-old daughter was abducted and killed by paedophile Roy [...]

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The parents of a toddler who died in a day home mystery have spoken of their pride after their young daughters organs have since been used to give life to four children. Mackenzy Woolfsmith was rushed from a day home on Elgin Heath S.E. in Calgary last Wednesday after reports she had fallen down the [...]

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Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today. The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal ‘cure-all’. The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies [...]

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Seven-week-old Kodi Sarah Wall was placed in an ‘unsafe sleeping environment,’ a pathologist told an inquest at Barrow, Cumbria. The coroner warned parents that a settee was a ‘very unsafe’ place for babies to sleep. Kodi’s mum, Samantha Louise Wall, put her to sleep on the living room settee, on top of a cushion resting [...]

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The 54 year-old, who celebrated his birthday last week, lost his footing as he walked along the cliffs at Mullion, Cornwall, with his 44 year-old wife Samantha and two children, 12, on Friday night.   It is thought Mr McCabe, who was holidaying in the area with a friend and their child, was trying to [...]

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A teenage girl has died at a campsite and three other people have been taken to hospital with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. West Mercia Police said officers were called to the site in Bucknell, South Shropshire, by the ambulance service at around 10am today. Detective Inspector Gavin Kinrade said: “I can confirm that we are [...]

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The children of a soldier killed by enemy mortar fire in Afghanistan have paid a touching tribute to their father saying: “We wish yesterday had never happened.” Corporal Andrew Roberts, 32, died on Friday alongside Private Ratu Manasa Silibaravi in the northern part of Nahr-e-Saraj district in Helmand province. Friends and relatives hailed their bravery [...]

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