Indian-origin student Gaurav Jaisingh dies in balcony fall on pre-graduation trip to Bahamas (Picture credit: Instagram/@gaurav_jaisingh) An Indian-origin Massachusetts college student has died after accidentally falling from a balcony during a pre-graduation trip to the Bahamas, just days before he was set to graduate.Gaurav Jaisingh, a senior at Bentley University in Waltham, died on Sunday […]
Christopher S. Bond, who was Missouri’s youngest governor and the state’s first Republican governor since 1945 when he was elected in 1972, and who went on to serve four terms in the U.S. Senate, died on Tuesday in St. Louis. He was 86. His death was announced by Gov. Mike Kehoe, a fellow Republican. The […]
Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but refer to a body of knowledge in which Africa has been subsumed by Western disciplines such as anthropology, history, theology or whatever other scientific discourse,” he told Callaloo. “And this is the level on which […]
Jiggly Caliente dies at 44, days after leg amputation. Bianca Castro, popularly known as Jiggly Caluente, died at the age of 44 following a leg surgery that had to be done because of a severe infection. The news was announced by their family, who shared a statement on her Instagram page. “It is with profound […]
File photo: Virginia Giuffre (Picture credit: Instagram/virginiarobertsrising11) Virginia Giuffre, who became one of the most powerful voices against Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex trafficking ring and accused Britain’s Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, has died by suicide at the age of 41, her family confirmed. She passed away at her farm in Neergabby, Western Australia.“It is […]
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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a towering figure in Latin American literature and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Sunday at the age of 89. His death was confirmed in a statement shared on social media by his son Álvaro Vargas Llosa.“It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our […]
Idaho teen with autism dies after being declared brain dead due to police shooting (Picture credit: AP) Victor Perez, a 17-year-old nonverbal autistic teen with cerebral palsy who was shot nine times by police in Pocatello, Idaho, has died after being removed from life support, his family confirmed on Saturday. The teenager had been in […]
SEOUL: Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed, died on Wednesday. He was 82. Kim died of old age after two months of stay at a nursing home and his official funeral […]
Amadou Bagayoko, a Malian guitarist and composer who with his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, formed Amadou & Mariam, inventing a broadly accessible sound that made fans of people worldwide who otherwise knew little about music from Africa, died on Friday in Bamako, Mali’s capital. He was 70. His death was announced by the Malian […]
