A Chinese man who was brutally attacked while collecting cans in New York City has died of his injuries eight months later. Yao Pan Ma, 61, had been collecting...
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Oscar-winning composer Marilyn Bergman has died at her home in Los Angeles at age of 93. The lyricist, who teamed with her husband Alan Bergman, on the song...
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has revealed how he lost nearly six and a half stone (40kg) in less than six months. The Trump administration’s...
Three white men who chased and shot a black man as he ran through their neighbourhood have been sentenced to life in prison for his murder. Ahmaud Arbery, 25...
Astronomers have for the first time imaged the last moments in the life of a red supergiant star. It was spotted just 130 days before exploding using two...
Peter Bogdanovich, who directed movies including The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, has died at the age of 82. His daughter, Antonia, said he died of...
US President Joe Biden has marked one year since the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol by condemning political violence in an address to the nation, as...
A blanket of snow covers Washington DC at the moment – the heart of what is often framed as the world’s greatest democracy looks picture postcard...
A utility company’s power cables sparked last summer’s lethal Dixie Fire in California, which swept through five counties and destroyed more than...
More than a million new COVID cases were reported in the US on Monday – the highest anywhere in the world since the start of the pandemic. The 1,082,549...
The founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, has been convicted of fraud. The 37-year-old was found guilty of turning her company into a...
A confidential settlement between Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre appears to absolve him and any other party who could have been included as a possible...
One of the survivors of the 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse, Aoife Beary, has died at the age of 27. Six Irish students were killed and several others were...
Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of US politician Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy...
Prince Andrew’s bid to block the continuation of a lawsuit by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 – on the grounds that she...
Emergency services searching for people missing after wildfires swept through communities in Colorado will use cadaver dogs to hunt through layers of fresh...
