The world lost one of its greatest sons last night at 8:50 PM. Since then, news stations, politicians and celebrities have been pouring out tributes for South Africa’s former president.
Chopper Read, one of Australia’s roughest criminals and best-selling authors has died at age 58 of liver cancer. Read spent 23 years in jail, before being released in 1998. I wonder if Neville will be at the funeral.
An American woman named Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick recently passed away, and her children marked the occasion in their local newspaper with a haunting obituary that paints her as a woman who hated the “gentle and kind human spirit.” Johnson-Reddick was born on January 4, 1945, and passed away last month.
Last week a truck blasted through a red light in Durban hitting four minibus taxis and three cars in Fields Hill, Pinetown. 19 people died on the scene, and three later passed away in the hospital. Watch this video shot on the dashboard camera of a car directly behind the vehicles that were hit.
This is sure to make you shed a tear. Comedian Sarah Silverman’s dog named Duck, has passed away and she has written a very heartfelt obituary for him. In her tribute, Sarah recounts the journey they had together, and remembers Duck as her companion and best friend.
Everything about this story is very sad. In this video you will see an emotional, Turkish football player, Volkan Sen who plays for Trabzonspor FC. He burst in to tears during a match on Monday because fans of his OWN TEAM heckled his dead mother. Wait until you hear what the chairman of the football club had to say.
The body of a University of Cape Town student was found in Newlands Forest on Monday. Ilan Belcher, 19, went hiking with his brother on Sunday, and decided to continue hiking after his brother went home.
Sunday marked the one year anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s death, and NASA released this music video as a tribute to the late astronaut. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon as commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
A Philadelphia woman was found alive and well, two weeks after her funeral. Yes, you read that right. Sharolyn Jackson was thought to be dead by her family. They identified a body as hers, but noted the only thing “odd” about the body was that her nose looked a little thinner than normal. Sharolyn had […]
One year ago today, 34 miners were killed by South African police and military forces at Lonmin’s Rustenburg platinum mines. One year on, the Mail & Guardian asks why those men died, and if South Africa will ever see a repeat of the Marikana massacre.
Derek Medina shot and killed his wife Jennifer Alfonso, apparently because Alfonso had told her husband she was leaving him. The crazy part? Medina posted a Facebook statement confessing to the murder, as well as posting a picture of his dead wife.
UCT drama student, Rosa Carlyle-Mitchell fell to her death on Sunday night while celebrating her 21st birthday party with friends and family at the Kimberley Hotel on the corner of Roeland and Buitenkant in the Cape Town CBD.
In 2010 Shrien Dewani was the man accused of arranging the death of his wife Anni on their “honeymoon” in South Africa. Dewani allegedly organised for his 28-year-old wife to be shot whilst taking a ride in a Cape Town taxi. 33-year-old Dewani is wanted for trial in South Africa, but as a result of […]
On Sunday the terrible Yarnell Hill Wildfire took the lives of 19 firefighters (14 in their twenties). The tragic ordeal in Arizona engulfed the whole of the elite Granite Mountain Hotshots area at a crazy speed, leaving them no chance. Click through to see the time-lapse video of the size and speed of the disaster.
The funeral service of James Gandolfini took place on Thursday at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. Family and friends gathered to pay their last respects to the actor.
Things came to an abrupt holt at the Vectren Dayton Air Show on Saturday. At around 12h45, spectators were left flabbergasted as the plane with stunt pilot and wing-walker crashed into the ground and burst into flames. [WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO]
Tinsel Town tweet their messages of love and condolence for the passing of Sopranos actor, James Gandolfi. Many have been deeply saddened by his passing at such a young age.
Microsoft founder and billionaire, Bill Gates, expressed his emotions when talking about the late Steve Jobs. In industry, the pair were rivals. But according to Gates, nothing mattered more than family and frienship. The pair grew up together and took over the technology industry.
This photograph was taken by Bangladeshi photographer, Taslima Akhter, and captures the final embrace of two people found in the rubble of the collapsed garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh on 24 April 2013. We urge you not to scroll down if you are a sensitive reader
The mother of Simpson’s creator, Matt Groening passed away recently. Groening is an American cartoonist, producer, animator, author, musician, voice actor and he wrote the popular TV show, The Simpsons, and his mother’s obituary shows exactly where most of the character names for his signature come from.
Chris Kelly from the Kriss Kross rap duo has been found dead in his Atlanta home. Police believe it to be a drug overdose.
What happens to your data when you die? That question has become increasingly mainstream over the last two years. Thankfully, Google has launched a new tool that will enable users to determine a sending destination for their data in the event that they die.
This piece is the hardest piece I have ever had to write, yet the easiest. It’s hard, because the local music industry lost a family member on Wednesday, so fighting back the tears while writing about Paul is an impossible task. This piece is also easy to write, because with Paul came so many happy memories and funny stories.
The obituary of Harry Weathersby Stamps, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s former Dean has gone viral. “Harry Weathersby Stamps, ladies’ man, foodie, natty dresser, and accomplished traveler, died on Saturday, March 9, 2013,” was the opening line of Stamps’ obituary. Each of those traits were later detailed. The obituary reports Stamps loving smart women, from his […]
The House of Commons was assured yesterday that Canada is a zombie-free zone according to the Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird. Winnipeg New Democrat Pat Martin warned the house, I don’t need to tell you, Mr. Speaker, that zombies don’t recognize borders. Martin raised the issue of a Quebec Government disaster plan that used a mock zombie […]
Norah Ehpron basically created the mould for modern day romantic comedies, writing both “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless In Seattle.’ She passed away yesterday in Manhattan of complications relating to acute myeloid leukaemia.
Yesterday Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta Island subspecies of the giant tortoise, died, marking the total extinction of his subspecies. It’s a sad day, as Lonesome George became a symbol of other species on the brink of extinction, and an ambassador for Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.
Bob Welch, formerly Fleetwood Mac’s guitarist and succesful soft-rock soloist of the 70’s, was found in his Nashville home yesterday, dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 65. Police reports say that Welch’s body was found by his wife in the mid-afternoon, along with a suicide note.
Sassoon came to prominence in the 1960s as he pioneered the “wash and wear” look for women’s hair, basically freeing women from over-stylised, labour-intensive styles that dominated the 1950s. He pioneered an “architectural” approach to hairstyling, using geometric cuts and shapes modeled on the facial structure of the person he was styling. At the time, the approach was revolutionary.
Following the death of Beastie Boys band member, Adam “MC” Yauch, one of the co-creators of Chapelle’s Show has released previously unseen footage of the band performing “The New Style,” a song from their debut album, on the show in 2004. The show’s co-creator and host Dave Chappelle performs with them for a bit.