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Taliban Mentor Dies in Captivity

Sultan Amir Tarar was US ally against Soviets in Afghanistan

(Newser) - A former Pakistani spy who helped the Taliban rise to power in Afghanistan has died in militant captivity 10 months after he was seized in northwest Pakistan, a top official said today. Sultan Amir Tarar, who as an American ally against Soviet rule in Afghanistan in the 1980s trained at...

'Ivory Queen of Soul' Teena Marie Dead
'Ivory Queen of Soul'
Teena Marie Dead at 54
obituary
Dec 27, 2010 6:10 AM CST

'Ivory Queen of Soul' Teena Marie Dead at 54

Motown Californian rocked fans' worlds

(Newser) - R&B soul singer Teena Marie was found dead in her bed at her California home yesterday. She was 54. Known as the "Ivory Queen of Soul," Marie signed with the legendary Motown label in the '70s; recorded 13 albums, including hits Lovergirl, Fire and Desire, Square Biz...

Woman Dies After Caning Over Affair
Woman Dies After
Caning Over Affair
Dec 21, 2010 3:22 AM CST

Woman Dies After Caning Over Affair

Bangladesh launches investigation into illegal punishment

(Newser) - Bangladeshi officials have launched an investigation into the death of 40-year-old woman following a severe caning for an alleged affair with her stepson. The woman died nearly a month after the beating; she was sentenced by village elders to 40 blows for adultery and caned in public. Bangladesh banned such...

Fan Plunges to Death at Chicago Stadium

Man appeared to leap during Bears, Eagles game: witnesses

(Newser) - A man plunged 20 feet to his death from Chicago's Soldier Field football stadium during a Bears game against the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday. Witnesses said the man, who has been identified as 23-year-old Stuart Haverty of Woodstock, Ill., appeared to run to a ledge in an upper-level seating area and...

Are People Planning Death to Avoid Estate Tax?

Rep. Cynthia Lummis says it's the case in Wyoming

(Newser) - Rep. Cynthia Lummis claims her Wyoming constituents are literally planning to die by Dec. 31 to avoid paying estate taxes, which will be reinstated when Bush-era tax cuts expire at year-end, reports the AP . She explained their logic this way: "If you have spent your whole life building a...

Mountain Goat Suspected in Man's Death

Rangers believe man's fatal injuries came from goat they caught

(Newser) - A mountain goat is currently the prime suspect in a man's death in Olympia National Park. Robert Boardman was found injured yesterday near the Klahhane Ridge area of the park and died hours later at a hospital. Park rangers didn't give any information on what kind of wounds the 63-year-old...

Newborn Dies After Being Snatched by Monkey

Four-day-old was briefly left alone in living room

(Newser) - A bizarre tragedy in Malaysia: A four-day-old baby girl died after being snatched from her family’s living room by a monkey. The newborn had been left alone for a few minutes and disappeared; her mother and grandmother saw blood stains on the floor and then found her outside with...

Speeding Teen Crashes Into House, Kills Girl

Sixteen-year-old driver only had learner's permit

(Newser) - A 16-year-old driving more than twice the speed limit crashed into a Brooklyn home yesterday, killing his 13-year-old passenger. Eric Hakimisefat has his junior driver's permit, but seemingly wasn't following two of the permit's regulations as he drove the victim and her brother home: There was no adult in the...

WWII Vet Sets Self on Fire, Kills 8 in Nursing Home

Fellow residents died from smoke inhalation

(Newser) - The suicide of a World War II veteran is disturbing enough on its own: The resident of a Russian nursing home set himself on fire. But it gets even more depressing: Eight people in neighboring rooms also died, falling victim to smoke and gas inhalation, the AP reports . The 86-year-old...

Missing Woman Found Dead, Buried Under Junk in Home

Even the search dogs couldn't find her

(Newser) - Something to think about the next time you don’t feel like cleaning out the garage: A missing Las Vegas woman was found after four months…dead in her own home, buried underneath piles of junk. Bill James alerted authorities when his wife Billie Jean, 67, went missing, but even...

Death Magazine Launches
 Death Magazine Launches 
Aug 3, 2010 10:26 AM CDT

Death Magazine Launches

Monthly plans to focus on mortality issues

(Newser) - Ever wonder why there are so many magazines about weddings but none about funerals? After two sudden deaths claimed members of his family, a creative director at a British communications company did, so he decided to start one. Eulogy, Jim Thornton's newly launched monthly magazine, deals with funerals, end-of-life care,...

Dead Users' Ghosts Haunt Facebook

With more older users, site struggles with death

(Newser) - Lately Facebook has been suggesting that members contact the dead. The social networking site isn't recommending a seance—its software is just having trouble distinguishing living members from those who've died, making features like birthday reminders and suggestions to get in touch with particular friends increasingly awkward as more older...

Undertakers Want to Flush Your Corpse

Eco-friendly Belgians would dissolve you, send to sewer system

(Newser) - Researchers in Belgium want to flush you down the toilet. A group of undertakers say dead people ought to be dissolved, flushed, and sent to water treatment plants—all in the name of eco-efficiency. They tell the Telegraph that the procedure, which is being studied by the EU, beats cremation...

Woman, 91, Lived With Bodies of Husband, Sister

Pennsylvania nonagenarian found death 'hard to take'

(Newser) - A 91-year-old Pennsylvania woman busted for sharing her home with the embalmed corpses of her husband and twin sister says she "felt differently about death" than people who "have a terrible feeling" about her living arrangements. Jean Stevens won't say who exhumed the bodies and considers the actions...

It's Like Facebook for Dead People

 It's Like Facebook 
 for Dead People 

new site
Jun 11, 2010 10:15 AM CDT

It's Like Facebook for Dead People

Hong Kong government offers online memorial profiles

(Newser) - In Hong Kong, your online presence can begin when your earthly presence ends. The highly wired city has built a new website that enables the bereaved to set up commemorative online profiles of their departed loved ones. Users can choose among layout and background music options, supplement information about their...

Inside Andrew Koppel's Troubled Life

Had history of drinking alone; may have taken drugs on day of death

(Newser) - Andrew Koppel had a long history of alcohol abuse, but friends remember him as a brilliant and "genuine nice guy" who had—they thought—successfully moved past the troubles of his youth. His death Monday left more questions than answers, and Belinda Caban, in whose apartment he was found,...

Ted Koppel's Son Dies After Drinking Binge

Witness: 'He was very drunk'

(Newser) - The son of former ABC newscaster Ted Koppel has been found dead in a New York City apartment after an apparent daylong drinking binge with a 32-year-old waiter he had just met, police say. Andrew Koppel, 40, was declared dead at around 1:30am yesterday, reports the AP . A 53-year-old...

Brittany Murphy's Husband Found Dead

Preliminary ruling natural causes

(Newser) - Brittany Murphy's 39-year-old husband was found dead in his Los Angeles home last night, less than 5 months after the actress died. Simon Monjack's death appears to be of natural causes, officials told AP , but police are continuing to investigate. Murphy died late last year at the age of 32....

Why Does Death Always Go Viral?
 Why Does Death 
 Always Go Viral? 
OPINION
May 19, 2010 1:57 PM CDT

Why Does Death Always Go Viral?

Online videos are the new 'snuff films'

(Newser) - The world couldn’t stop watching when video emerged of an American woman drowning, swept away by a wave, after pushing her son to safety. We were equally transfixed by footage of an Olympic hopeful’s fatal luge crash and an Iranian protester’s violent shooting death . “Nothing goes...

Chimps Grieve Like Us
 Chimps Grieve Like Us 
Apr 27, 2010 2:39 PM CDT

Chimps Grieve Like Us

Scientists discover that chimpanzees understand death

(Newser) - Chimpanzees appear to understand death, and grieve in ways strikingly similar to their less hairy evolutionary cousins, new research suggests. In 2008, scientists got a rare glimpse of this mourning process when a 50-year-old chimp named Pansy died in a Scottish safari park, LiveScience explains. In the days before, the...

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