Man who started ‘ice bucket challenge’ dies
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A former US college baseball player who helped inspire the global phenomenon known as the “ice bucket challenge” to tackle a…
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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A former US college baseball player who helped inspire the global phenomenon known as the “ice bucket challenge” to tackle a…
Pete Frates, one of the inspirations behind the wildly successful ice bucket challenge, at the Sportsman Of The Year ceremony in December 2014. (AFP)
In this file photo taken on 21 September 2019, Juice Wrld performs in the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival and Daytime Stage at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds…
In this file photo taken on 8 November 2019, Sesame Street's Big Bird and puppeteer Caroll Spinney light the Empire State Building in New York City. (AFP)
A man was burnt to death on Thursday after a pastor mistook petrol for water during a healing service in Lagos, the emergency services said.
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Wat Misaka.
Visitors look at portraits of shooting victims at "The Las Vegas Portraits Project, 1 October Memorial Exhibit" at the Clark County Government Center in Las…
Film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig, by origin a Croatian Jew, worked alongside Steven Spielberg in numerous films, notably "Schindler's List."…
People visit a makeshift memorial at Central Park on 15 November 2019 in Santa Clarita, California, where parents and children were reunited following the…
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s boxing community was in shock Sunday after middleweight Dwight Ritchie collapsed and died aged just 27, reportedly while…
John L. Gokongwei Jr., the tycoon who built one of the most diversified consumer business conglomerates across Asia and the Pacific, passed away “peacefully”…
A Hong Kong student who fell from a car park while police and protesters were clashing last weekend has died, hospital officials said Friday, in a development…
Tokyo, Japan — Japan’s Sadako Ogata, the first woman appointed to head the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR, has died at the age of 92, Japan’s foreign aid agency…
The body of a two-year old boy trapped 26-metres (85-feet) down a well in southern India for more than three days was recovered on Tuesday, authorities said.
In today’s global health landscape, mental health challenges continue to be on the rise. According to 2019 data from the World Health Organization (WHO), one…
He was a friend of Yuri Gagarin, who became the first man in space in 1961 and trained with him.
Legendary British musician Ginger Baker, a founding member of psychedelic band Cream and considered one of the most innovative and influential drummers of his…
Tony Mabesa — a veteran Philippine theater actor whose career spanned for 70 years — died Friday night.
A police sergeant died after he lost consciousness while performing a road run as part of training at Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City.
File photo ofFrench former president Jacques Chirac (Photo by BERTRAND LANGLOIS / AFP)