âChokingâ Game Deaths on the Rise
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More kids appear to be playing a risky game that can lead to accidental strangulation.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Deaths from brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neuron disease appear to have soared in the past two decades in the world's most developed nations, and researchers are blaming the increase ...
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An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 1,500 wild game animals in nature preserves in southeastern Zimbabwe, a state-run newspaper reported Monday.
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The number of people killed in communal clashes in central Nigeria is far higher than previously thought, a new government study says.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study being reported Tuesday estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last year alone....
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With almost 25 million Africans infected, 2.8 million new infections last year and 2.1 million deaths, the statistics are as grim as ever as Africa readies for World AIDS Day on December 1.
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Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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Armies of officials are tabulating the deaths caused by the tsunami that struck a dozen countries in Asia and Africa last weekend. The grim task is often imprecise.
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As more and more bodies are being swept ashore, the death toll due to Sundayâs tsunami waves is rising fast along the south-eastern coast and the Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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New estimates of the number of people killed by the conflict in western Sudan challenges widely quoted figures released last year by the U.S. government.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study being reported Tuesday estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last...
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By YP Rajesh and Suresh Seshadri in Cuddalore and Madras, India. RESCUE workers pulled rotting corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India today, as the government warned the death toll of more than
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As the death toll in Sunday&#39;s tsunamis continues to rise, health authorities are struggling to prevent the outbreak of diseases in the worst affected areas.
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Â· Rise in suicides to one-third of all deaths Â· Campaign group blames overcrowding Â· Mentally ill inmates 'need care, not punishment'
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HIPPOS and other animals in Queen Elizabeth National Park and Katonga Wildlife Reserve in western Uganda are dying of anthrax. The commissioner in charge of livestock health in the agriculture ministry, Nicholas
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FIVE people yesterday died and three others were injured in a series of shootings following a dispute among US deer hunters. It is thought the five were caught up in a dispute over treetop