Cancer fundraiser Jane Tomlinson dies
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Leading fundraiser Jane Tomlinson has died after a seven-year battle with cancer, a family spokesman said Tuesday.
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Former England and Liverpool captain Emlyn Hughes has died of cancer at the age of 57.
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Founder of the Body Shop Dame Anita Roddick has died at the age of 64 from a major brain haemorrhage.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, died in hospital on Friday.
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TV steeplejack Fred Dibnah dies in a hospice in Greater Manchester after a long battle against cancer.
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A British woman with terminal cancer who became one the country&#39;s leading fundraisers said in an interview to be broadcast Monday that this summer could be the last she spends with her family.
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Doctors, staff members and friends at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis are remembering actor Christopher Reeve today as a star fundraiser who did everything he could to increase awareness about spinal cord injuries.
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SAN FRANCISCO Mary Elaine Gennoy--a San Francisco resident and an avid medical marijuana activist--has died at age 53. Close friends say Gennoy died September fifth from complications after undergoing throat surgery for cancer of the larynx.
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The senior negotiator for the Tamil Tigers, Anton Balasingham, has died of cancer in London, the BBC  learns.
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John Dunn - one of the best known voices on BBC Radio 2 - dies after a battle with cancer.
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A cannabis campaigner who went to court to defend her right to use the drug for pain relief dies at home.
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Cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson becomes the first terminally-ill person to complete the Ironman triathlon in Florida.
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A man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer who was planning to host his own living wake has died.
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British journalist and former gossip columnist Nigel Dempster dies at the age of 65.
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The eldest son of "Royle Family" actor Ricky Tomlinson has died after a long fight against alcohol and drug addiction, the Daily Mirror reported on Thursday.
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Pledges are "flooding in" to help a Ghanaian woman with terminal cancer who was removed from the UK.
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The death has been announced of the former England and Liverpool football captain and television personality, Emlyn Hughes. Mr Hughes, who was 57, had been battling with a brain tumour for the last 15 months.