Heavy D Funeral Attracts Family, Stars, a Letter From Obama (33 PHOTOS)

Hip-hop star Heavy D was remembered through laughter and tears at a funeral service Friday in his home town of Mount Vernon, N.Y. that included anecdotes from longtime friend Diddy and words of encouragement for his young daughter, delivered in a letter from President Barack Obama.

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Norway judge silences Breivik in court (8 PHOTOS)

(CBS/AP)  OSLO, Norway - The Norwegian right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people tried to give a speech describing himself as a resistance leader at his first public court hearing Monday but was cut off by the judge.

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Moammar Gaddafi's family reportedly will sue NATO (5 PHOTOS)

The family of deceased Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi reportedly plans to file a war-crimes complaint against NATO for the role they believe the international military alliance played in the former leader’s death, a lawyer for the family told Agence France-Presse news service.

Marcel Ceccaldi, a French lawyer who previously worked for Gaddafi's regime and now represents his family, told AFP on Wednesday that the complaint would be filed with the International Criminal Court in the  Hague because the family believes a NATO strike on Gaddafi’s convoy led directly to his death.

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Amy Winehouse inquest: I don't want to die - what singer told doctor night before her death

Troubled: Amy Winehouse on stage in Serbia a month before she died

TRAGIC Amy Winehouse died after a killer booze bender following weeks on the wagon, her inquest was told yesterday.

She suffered alcohol poisoning but had told her doctor the night before: “I don’t want to die.” The singer was found five times over the drink-drive limit, with three empty vodka bottles next to her.

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Is this the stupidest man in Britain? Father pushes toddler along in pushchair beneath towering waves as angler dies in flash floods (13 PHOTOS)

Dangerous: As giant waves swept up by gales were battering the seafront in Sunderland,
when this unnamed man took his young child out in a pushchair for an extremely hazardous walk

As people across Britain took precautions against another onslaught of heavy rain, one father decided the conditions were suitable for taking his toddler out for a seaside stroll.

Giant waves swept up by gales were battering the seafront in Sunderland when the unnamed man yesterday took his young child out in a pushchair for the hazardous walk.

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Italy in mourning as tragic Simoncelli's body is flown back home for funeral (18 PHOTOS)

Devastated: Marco Simoncelli's father Paolo (left) is embraced
by Italian Olympic president Giovanni Petrucci

The body of MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli has arrived back in Italy following Sunday's fatal accident in the Malaysian Grand Prix.


Simoncelli's father Paolo and fellow rider Valentino Rossi were aboard the flight that arrived at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport on Tuesday.

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Libyans bury Gadhafi in unmarked grave along with son and top aide (VIDEO)

MISRATA, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi was buried early Tuesday morning in an unmarked grave in a modest Islamic ceremony, closing the book on his nearly 42-year rule of Libya and the eight-month civil war to oust him.

A Gadhafi nephew read a prayer for the dead before Gadhafi’s body — along with those of his son Muatassim and former defense minister Abu Bakr Younis — were handed over for burial, said Ibrahim Beitalmal, a spokesman for the military council in the port city of Misrata.

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Col Gaddafi 'buried in secret, desert grave at dawn'

The bodies of ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a top aide have been buried in secret in the desert, Libyan officials say.

A National Transitional Council (NTC) official told the BBC the bodies were buried at dawn in an unknown location.

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7.2 quake in Turkey kills 138, collapses buildings

People try to save people trapped under debris in Tabanli village near the city
of Van after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday.

AP People try to save people trapped under debris in Tabanli village near the city of Van after a powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Sunday.




At least 138 bodies have been found after a magnitude-7.2 earthquake hit Turkey’s south-eastern Van province Sunday, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said early Monday.

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34 dead in India bridge collapse (7 PHOTOS)

(CNN) -- A bridge collapse in India's tea-producing region of Darjeeling has left at least 34 people dead, officials said.


Another 102 people were injured, said Debabrata Pal of West Bengal state disaster management.

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Marco Simoncelli death: safety in Moto GP is never 100 per cent guaranteed, says Sepang circuit chairman (35 PHOTOS)

MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli died exactly a week after Dan Wheldon, and while the tributes poured in for the 24-year-old following his death in Malaysia on Sunday there were calls to investigate the circumstances as the chairman of the Sepang circuit admitted safety in the sport could never be 100 per cent guaranteed.

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Gaddafi's body lies in Misrata market cooler (VIDEO)

Gaddafi's body lies in a market place cold storage unit on the outskirts of Misrata, as Libyan authorities debate his burial. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

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Marco Simoncelli killed in accident at Malaysian MotoGP (VIDEO)

Chronology of Marco Simoncelli Crash and Death in MotoGP Sepang Malaysia 2011

Motorsport was today mourning its second death in the space of a week after Italian Marco Simoncelli was killed in a crash at the Malaysian Moto GP.The Gresini Honda rider lost control of his bike on the second lap of the circuit in Sepang and appeared to be hit by Colin Edwards and then Valentino Rossi as he slid across the track.


The 24-year-old's helmet came off in the collision and he was taken to the medical centre for treatment, but died from his injuries.

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Muammar Gaddafi Death in Ambulance (VIDEO)

Libyan forces guarding Muammar Gaddafi's body in a cold storage room let in members of the public to view the deposed leader for a second day on Saturday, but the wounds that may hold the clue to how he died were covered up.

Gaddafi's body lay on a mattress on the floor of the cold room, as it did Friday when hundreds of members of the public filed in to see for themselves that the man who ruled Libya for 42 years was dead.

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Saudi Arabian crown prince dies at New York hospital

(CNN) -- Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud died at a New York hospital, kingdom officials said Saturday.

No other details about his death were immediately available, but arrangements are under way to transport his body back to Saudi Arabia, officials said.

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Pressure grows for Gaddafi death investigation (VIDEO & 3 PHOTOS)

Libyan authorities are coming under pressure to give a full account of the death of Moamar Gaddafi amid concerns the former dictator may have been executed - a war crime under international law.

The corpses of Gaddafi and his son Moutassim remain in refrigerated containers in the city of Misrata, where they were viewed by crowds of people on Friday.

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"Please don't shoot": said Qaddafi's at last moments (13 PHOTOS)

Muammar Gaddafi pleaded with his captors for his life "Please don't shoot."

Muammar Gaddafi pleaded with his captors for his life after he was found cowering in a storm drain. He struggled with his captors in this video footage taken by rebel fighters after he was captured.

An ex-rebel fighter named Mohammed, "a young fighter in his 20s wearing a blue t-shirt and a New York Yankees baseball cap," told the BBC he found Qaddafi hiding in the tiny drain pipe. The colonel allegedly looked up and said simply: "Please don't shoot."

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Gaddafi killed: Bashar al-Assad will be next to fall, declare Syrians (VIDEO)

Opposition leaders in Syria predicted that President Bashar al-Assad would follow Gaddafi to become the next Middle East strongman to be deposed in the Arab Spring.

Even as Libya’s National Transitional Council prepared to declare victory in the civil war last night, celebrating crowds spilt into the streets of the Syrian city of Homs, an activist in the country said.

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No way Jackson self-injected fatal drug - expert (VIDEO & 4 PHOTOS)

(Reuters) - The claim by attorneys of Michael Jackson's doctor that the singer killed himself with an injection of the powerful anaesthetic propofol is a "crazy scenario," a top anaesthesiology expert testified Thursday.

Dr. Steven Shafer told jurors that the level of propofol found in Jackson's bloodstream at his 2009 autopsy was too high to be explained by the theory that he self-injected.

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PKK kills 24 Turkish troops, Ankara hits back (PHOTO)

Demonstrators in central Ankara protest against the latest attacks
against the Turkish military. — Reuters pic

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Oct 20 — Turkey has launched air and ground assaults on Kurdish militants in Iraq, vowing to exact “great revenge” after 24 Turkish soldiers were killed yesterday in one of the deadliest Kurdish attacks in years.

Turkish officials said about 100 fighters from the PKK, or the Kurdistan Workers Party, mounted simultaneous attacks under cover of darkness on seven remote army outposts in Hakkari province, on Turkey’s rugged southeastern border with Iraq.

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