The professional gambler Archie Karas arrived in Las Vegas in December 1992 with $50 to his name. He borrowed $10,000 from a friend and, over roughly the next three years—after a freewheeling ...

A surfer has died after being impaled by a swordfish in a freak accident in Indonesia. Giulia Manfrini, a 36-year-old Italian, was riding a wave when the swordfish reportedly leapt out of the ...

Liam Payne, the English pop singer best known for his work in One Direction, has died at age 31. Celebrity deaths 2024: Remembering the stars we've lost this year After their time on The X Factor ...

A Utah mom who started a GoFundMe page for own funeral has died after a two year battle with terminal cancer. Erika Diarte-Carr, 30, died on Friday, according to her cousin Angelique Rivera.

A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing at New York’s Kennedy Airport early Wednesday after the captain died onboard, airline officials said. The Airbus A350-900 was heading from ...

He was fatally stabbed outside Los Angeles, and his 19-year-old son was arrested. Mr. Lowe had earned acclaim for documenting the siege of Sarajevo and other conflicts. By John Yoon and Claire ...

A woman has died after she went overboard from a cruise ship near the Channel Islands, say rescue services. An alert was sent out at about 02:00 BST for a search for the woman in her 20s north of ...

The estranged sister of Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong died on Wednesday at 69, after being diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy in 2020. The death of Lee Wei Ling, a ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the gender of President Joe Biden's child who was killed in a car crash in 1972. It was his daughter. WASHINGTON ...

Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.” By Chris Kornelis ...

“I didn’t think he was going to die so young,” 21-year-old Isabella Milesi told the AP. Payne was one of five members of One Direction, which formed when they each auditioned for the British ...

Alex Salmond, who turned his Scottish National Party’s dream of power into reality even though he didn’t see his vision of an independent country come true, has died. He was 69. Salmond ...