Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music’s queen until she was ravaged by drug use, has died. She was only 48!
Publicist Kristen Foster confirmed on Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unclear.
CNN reports that Ray J, who was once involved in a relationship with Whitney, [...]
At least three people were killed and scores remain unaccounted for as a giant cruise ship keeled onto its side after running aground near the Italian island of Giglio on Friday night, local emergency officials said Saturday.
Rescue teams worked through the night to evacuate more than 4,000 people from the Costa Concordia, owned by Genoa-based [...]
It is with regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Private Matthew Haseldin from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (2 MERCIAN) in Afghanistan on Thursday 3 November 2011.
Private Haseldin was killed in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, while on an operation to maintain freedom of movement for the local population. His [...]
Veteran broadcaster and charity campaigner Sir Jimmy Savile has died at his home in Leeds, aged 84.
The police were called to his home on Saturday afternoon. The police are not treating his death as suspicious.
Savile was due to celebrate his 85th birthday on Monday.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “Police were called at 12.10pm today [...]
Coronation Street actress Betty Driver has died at the age of 91.
Driver joined the ITV soap in 1969 as barmaid Betty Turpin – later Williams.
She was employed on a three-month contract but stayed for 42 years. “I thought, why not,” Driver recalled. “It’ll make a break for a while.”
She had already been in show business [...]
Michael Jackson may be gone, but he’s certainly not forgotten.
The King of Pop’s three children — Prince, 14, Paris, 13, and Blanket, 9 — paid tribute to their late father at the Michael Forever concert in Cardiff, Wales Saturday 8th October 2011.
“We’re very happy to be here on this special night to honour our father,” [...]
Our condolences to the family of a severely disabled woman who has died after she fell from a harbour wall while strappedinto her electric whelchair.
Dorset Police said the woman, aged 20 and from Solihull in the West Midlands, was on the historic Cobb in Lyme Regis, Dorset, at around 12.45pm on Friday with her family [...]
A Folkestone based soldier has been honoured at the Pride of Britain awards.
Also receiving the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, 32-year-old Sergeant Dip Pun from the 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, was awarded for his bravery after fending off an attack from up to 15 Taliban insurgents, single handed.
After using all of his ammunition and exhausting his [...]
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