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Death, despair after US tornado outbreak

Rescuers have combed through fields of wreckage after a tornado outbreak roared across the middle of the US, leaving dozens dead and communities in despair.

Monkees star Mike Nesmith dies aged 78

Mike Nesmith, singer and guitarist with The Monkees, has died at the age of 78, his spokesman has announced.

ACT road toll rises to 10 following death of 43-year-old man in Taylor

The death of a 43-year-old man in Taylor yesterday, Wednesday 8 December, has now been counted as the tenth death on ACT roads in 2021.

ACT man in his 80s dies with COVID-19

A Canberra man in his 80s died with COVID-19 yesterday, marking the ACT's 12th death associated with this outbreak.

Indonesia’s Semeru volcano kills 13, injures dozens

o has killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, the disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) says, as search teams looked for victims in a landscape covered in deep layers of ash.

David Dalaithngu was ‘one of the greatest’

David Dalaithngu, who defined Indigenous Australians in movies for half a century, has died aged 68.

45 dead in fiery bus crash in Bulgaria

A bus carrying North Macedonians home from a tourist trip to Istanbul has crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria, killing at least 45 people, including children.

UK terror suspect ‘a Christian convert’

A suspected terrorist who blew himself up with a homemade bomb outside a hospital in northern England was a Christian convert who reportedly had an asylum claim rejected in 2014.

Acclaimed novelist Wilbur Smith dies

Novelist Wilbur Smith has died aged 88 at his home in Cape Town.

‘Mourning with you’: twin girls killed in house fire

Neighbours have left flowers at the entrance to a northern NSW property where twin girls died following a house fire thought to have started after a candle was left burning.

Man in 40s dies with COVID in ACT, six new cases

A man in his 40s died with COVID-19 yesterday in the Intensive Care Unit at Canberra Hospital, bringing the total deaths for the current ACT outbreak to 11.

Man dies after NSW fishing boat capsizes off Wollongong

A man has died despite the frantic rescue and resuscitation efforts of lifesavers and bystanders after a fishing boat capsized off Wollongong.

Passenger dead, driver critical following crash near Yass

A man in his 20s has died after being struck by a truck and a 23-year-old man has been airlifted to Canberra Hospital in a critical condition following a two-vehicle crash near Yass early this morning.

Alec Baldwin consoles cinematographer’s family

Alec Baldwin has been seen consoling the family of the cinematographer he accidentally killed on the set of his movie.

Fire in Taiwan building leaves 46 dead

The death toll from a fire in southern Taiwan that engulfed a building overnight has risen to 46, according to officials who say at least another 41 people were injured.

New COVID death, 46 cases as ACT lockdown end nears

Another COVID-19 related death has been recorded in the ACT, an aged care resident who was receiving end-of-life care, the seventh since the most recent outbreak began.

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