Australia mourns 'colourful son'
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Tributes are paid to Australian naturalist  Steve Irwin after he was killed by a stingray while diving off Queensland.
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Conservationists mourned the death of Australia's flamboyant "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin on Monday, and one suggested that TV's demands for sensation had pushed him to be too daring.
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Heath Ledgerâs family, Hollywood celebrities and hundreds of other mourners bid farewell to the actor at a memorial service in his Australian hometown.
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Condolences poured in to former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday following the death of his mother Rosa Bossi in Milan at age 97, Italian media reported.
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Steve Irwin's father said on Wednesday   he lost his best mate when the TV naturalist known as the   "Crocodile Hunter" died in a freak diving accident, adding that   his son would hate the fuss of a state funeral.
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The death of elderly man in his Sydney  apartment, which went undiscovered for more than a year, had  Australians questioning their loss of community spirit on  Thursday.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the gesture will remove a "blight on the nation's soul."
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The mother of David Sandham, who died after a fight at school, pays tribute to her son.
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QUNU, South Africa  - A frail-looking Nelson  Mandela buried his last son in a remote South African field on  Saturday, wearing a red AIDS ribbon to symbolize the fight  against the disease that killed him a week ago.
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Thousands gather in Auckland to mourn the first man to conquer Everest, including the son of the man who climbed with him, Tenzing Norgay
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The very sad news has been announced that Red legend Emlyn Hughes passed away peacefully at his Sheffield home in the early hours of this morning.
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Hundreds of mourners pay their last respects to three members of a family killed in a Perthshire car crash.
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Heath Ledger was remembered at a private  memorial service in his Australian home town on Saturday, with  fellow actor Cate Blanchett giving a eulogy and Ledger's father  thanking his son's fans for their support.
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South Africa's Nelson Mandela, one of Africa's most committed campaigners in the battle against AIDS, announced that his only surviving son had succumbed to the disease on Thursday.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - The brother of baby Azaria Chamberlain, whose disappearance in the remote Outback 24 years ago became one of Australia's most enduring mysteries, revealed Wednesday he had been vilified as a suspected killer.
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Nearly 200 mourners gathered Wednesday for the funeral of Scottish former world rally champion Colin McRae and his five-year-old son Johnny who died in a helicopter crash.
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Shocked Australians were on Wednesday  mourning the death of actor Heath Ledger in a New York  apartment possibly from a drug overdose, but his family said  the death was a tragic accident.