China nurse for U.S. "Flying Tigers" dies at 95
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A legendary Chinese nurse who cared for injured U.S. Flying Tigers airmen during World War Two and suffered beatings during the Cultural Revolution has died at 95, state media said on Thursday.
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An American woman convicted of treason   and later pardoned for being "Tokyo Rose," one of several radio   announcers Japan used during World War Two to spew propaganda   to undermine American morale, has died, a Chicago hospital said   on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES - A nurse at county-run King-Drew Medical Center turned down a monitor attached to a 28-year-old AIDS patient and failed to notice his heart was barely beating just before he died Thursday, it was reported today.
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Two tiger cubs have been found dead in a fridge at the same zoo in central China where a rare Siberian tiger was illegally slaughtered, state press reported Tuesday.
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LAS GATOS, Calif. Critically acclaimed author Iris Chang has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was 36. Chang was the best-selling author of &quot;The Rape of Nanking,&quot; which chronicled the Japanese occupation of China.
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A 58-year-old Everett woman has died of eastern equine encephalitis, the second state resident to die of the disease this year, state health officials said Monday.
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SEATTLE - A woman who was treated in Seattle for a brain-wasting condition believed to be related to mad cow disease has died.
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A 65-year-old from south central Kansas has died from West Nile virus, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said today.
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PASADENA, Calif. -- Olympic gold medalist Mildred McDaniel Singleton, one of the world's top female athletes of the 1950s, died Sept. 30 of cancer at a convalescent home. She was 70.
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Jean Kennedy Schmidt, one of the nurses dubbed the "Angels of Bataan" who were held prisoner in the Philippines during World War II, has died. She was 88.
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SHANGHAI, China - Chinese doctors have removed a more than 1-inch-long bullet from a woman's skull 64 years after she was shot by Japanese Imperial Army troops, her doctor said Tuesday.
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden, recognized as the world's oldest person, died Monday in a nursing home, the home's administrator said. She was 116.
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A 20-year-old woman in Indonesia who tested positive for bird flu has died, becoming the country's 64th victim.
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A Chinese surgeon more used to operating on humans has given a rare tiger cub back its sight by removing cataracts caused by inbreeding, state media said on Monday.
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A motorist found Iris Chang, 36, dead in her car on Tuesday. Investigators say she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Chang&#39;s best-selling book, &quot;The Rape of Nanking,&quot; shed new light on a grim chapter of history.
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A 16-year-old Indonesian girl has died of bird flu, taking the country's confirmed human death toll from the virus to 96, a health ministry official said on Tuesday.
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Lingling, the oldest Chinese Tiger in captivity, is suspected to have cancer, said a zoologist in Guiyang, capital of southwest Guizhou Province, earlier this week.