A 12-year-old boy has died in hospital after being mauled by a shark in Sydney Harbour earlier this week, his family has confirmed. The boy, named as Nico Antic in an online fundraiser, had been fighting for his life after being bitten on both legs on 18 January at a harbour beach in Vaucluse, in […]
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Gladys West, GPS pioneer and mathematician, dies at 95 : NPR
Gladys West went from a one-room schoolhouse in rural Virginia to college and to working on planetary motions and modeling. “I really did like geometry,” she said of her high school years. “I fell in love with that.” Courtesy of the West family hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the West family She navigated segregation […]
Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani dies at 93 : NPR
Valentino Garavani attends the Valentino show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017. Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Italian fashion designer Valentino died Monday at his Roman residence. He was 93. His foundation announced his death on Instagram. Dubbed an “international arbiter of taste” by […]
Claudette Colvin, arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up bus seat, dies : NPR
Claudette Colvin sits for a portrait, Feb. 5, 2009, in New York. Julie Jacobson/AP hide caption toggle caption Julie Jacobson/AP MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death was […]
Guard at Winter Olympic construction site dies in freezing conditions | Winter Olympics 2026
A guard at a construction site near a 2026 Winter Olympic venue in the mountain resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo died during a freezing overnight shift, authorities have confirmed. Italy’s infrastructure minister, Matteo Salvini, called for a full investigation into the circumstances of the 55-year-old worker’s death. Italian media reported that the death occurred on Thursday […]
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies aged 78
Bob Weir, the guitarist who co-founded the Grateful Dead, has died aged 78. Weir, a cornerstone of the California psychedelic rock group and many of its offshoots, passed away after a battle with cancer and lung issues, according to a post on his Instagram. “There is no final curtain here, not really. Only the sense […]
Veteran actor T.K. Carter, known for ‘The Thing’ and ‘Punky Brewster,’ dies at 69 : NPR
Actor TK Carter arrives for the premiere of “The LA Riot” at the Tribeca Film Festival, Monday, April 25, 2005, in New York. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP DUARTE, Calif. — Veteran actor T.K. Carter, who appeared in the horror film “The Thing” and “Punky Brewster” on television, has died at the […]
Man dies in Cornwall as tree falls on caravan in Storm Goretti
A man in his 50s has been found dead after a tree fell on to a caravan during Storm Goretti. Devon and Cornwall Police said emergency services were called to the Mawgan area of Helston, Cornwall, at about 19:35 GMT on Thursday after the tree fell during a red weather warning for wind. “Tragically, a […]
Terry Yorath: Leeds and Wales legend dies aged 75
Former Leeds United and Wales midfielder Terry Yorath has died at the age of 75 following a short illness. Yorath scored 11 goals in 199 appearances for Leeds, his first professional club, in a nine-year spell from 1967. He then signed for Coventry City and later played for Tottenham Hotspur, the Vancouver Whitecaps and Bradford […]
Edith Renfrow Smith, pioneer and witness to history, dies at 111 : NPR
Renfrow Smith in her cap and gown the day she graduated from Grinnell College in 1937. Edith Renfrow Smith family collection/Drake Community Library Archive Collection hide caption toggle caption Edith Renfrow Smith family collection/Drake Community Library Archive Collection Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In addition to a […]