World News by Wild Rose

Hong Kong police are investigating the discovery of the bodies of two men at a public housing estate flat in Ap Lei Chau. The force said a security guard alerted authorities after detecting a foul smell coming from the flat at Lei Tung Estate’s Tung Yip House at around 2pm on Monday. Rescue personnel forced their way into the flat and discovered the bodies of the two men. Paramedics confirmed their deaths at the scene. One of the men was believed to be in his fifties. Police have sealed off the...

Earlier, Bombay High Court ordered a CBI probe into Disha Salian's death and pulled up Mumbai Police for failing to register an FIR for six years, observing that its investigation raises more questions than answers

A building under construction in Penha, eastern Sao Paulo, collapsed onto a house and killed six people. A court ordered the temporary custody of three people linked to the work. The post Brazil: Sao Paulo Building Collapse Kills Six in Penha appeared first on The Rio Times.

Police were called after the man's wife became concerned and asked neighbours to check on her family.

Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba, who was once the world’s youngest monarch, was buried on Saturday amid an acrimonious succession dispute that has rocked the royal family and gripped the nation. The traditional monarch, who ascended the throne of Uganda’s Tooro Kingdom as an infant in 1995, died last month from cancer. He was 34. He was buried next to his ancestors after an emotional funeral service in an Anglican cathedral in the remote city of Fort Portal, near the Congo border, concluding a nine-day...

A child has been killed after an explosive object detonated when he touched it near Damascus.

Abhijeet Dipke said in his satirical letter that he was resigning as “my conscience does not allow me to continue occupying this chair after the deaths of more than 30 tribal children in Balaghat”

The mother of the deceased Class VI student at Chaitanya School in Ongole had been protesting in front of the school for the last few days seeking a probe into the circumstances leading to her son’s death

John served as the Thrissur district secretary and State secretariat member of the party, and was a key organiser of the Left movement in the district

Ahmed, who was a prominent political figure in Barak Valley and a four-term Congress MLA from Karimganj South, had been under treatment for a long time.

This article was first published on September 10, 1976. Sense of grief in Hongkong A deep sense of grief was felt by great numbers of the people in Hongkong yesterday (September 9, 1976) when radio and television stations flashed the news of the Chairman’s passing. The news brought a cloud of gloom over celebrations of the mid-autumn festivities. Flags at a number of major building and hotels, – including the Bank of China – were flown at half-mast within an hour of the announcement. Hongkong...

The pilot checked into a hotel in Vasant Kunj on September 10 and was found dead the next evening

Tasia Fortune's body was found in the lot of an abandoned home in Mississippi in August.

A 7-year-old boy shot in Pueblo Nuevo de Limón died before the private air ambulance could take off. President Laura Fernández has given the CCSS, Public Security and Civil Aviation three days to explain. The post Costa Rica Boy Dies Waiting for Ambulance Flight; President Gives Agencies Three Days appeared first on The Rio Times.

A 61-year-old man died in hospital on Thursday after collapsing on board a Hong Kong train earlier in the morning. Police said they received a report at 7.39am from passengers who found the man collapsed on a Central-bound train as it arrived at Cheung Sha Wan station. The incident temporarily disrupted MTR services along the Tsuen Wan line. The force added that firefighters and paramedics had arrived and found the man unconscious. He was rushed to Caritas Medical Centre in Sham Shui Po and...

Mithilaj experienced sudden chest pain during his morning exercise in Bhopal. Though he was rushed to a hospital, he could not be saved.

Thai authorities said on Wednesday they are investigating a Bangkok clinic where a Nigerian-born British businessman and influencer underwent a penis enlargement procedure that led to his death. A coroner in London last month ruled that the March 6 death of Igho Ubiribo, 43, in the Thai capital was caused by the hyaluronic acid injection he received hours earlier. The case has reignited debate about medical tourism, with Thailand a leading destination for visitors from abroad seeking healthcare,...

Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first chief executive who oversaw the city’s 1997 return to Chinese rule, has died. According to a statement from his office issued in the early hours on Wednesday, he died on Tuesday at the age of 89, surrounded by his loved ones. It is understood that he died at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. Tung was also a vice-chairman of China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. In this live blog, the South China Morning...

A compilation of stories on the hooch tragedy that saw the deaths of 69 persons at Karunapuram village in Kallakurichi district of Tamil Nadu

The husband of Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan died Monday while undergoing treatment in a hospital in Zanzibar, the country’s vice president said.

A bus returning from the Pico do Fogo crater left the road on Saturday, killing at least 25 people, most of them schoolchildren, on Cabo Verde's Fogo island. The post At Least 25 Die as a Bus Leaves the Crater Road on Cabo Verde’s Fogo Island appeared first on The Rio Times.

Hafidh Ameir Hassan kept a low profile and was rarely seen in public with the president.