The mother of a boy whose organs saved the life of five people backs an appeal for more people to join the organ donation register.

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Mother backs organ donor register

If you fancy retirement, you won’t find much company around Washington. More than one in five people in the region who are 65 or older are still plugging away at their jobs or looking for work, well above the national average, according to Census Bureau statistics. And although the numbers have shot up since the recession, it’s not all about the money. Read full article > >

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Retire? Not if Washingtonians can help it

Kill five people, including three U.N. employees.

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Attackers Target Afghan U.N. Offices

Ten years later, the memories are fresh. The bitterness and anger are gone — almost. It’s time to commemorate and it’s also time to move on. Those directly affected by the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people, including two postal workers, are doing just that. It’s a process. Moving on doesn’t start one day and end the next. Ten years later, that process continues for the families and colleagues of the workers who died. Read full article > >

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Anthrax attacks still resonate with postal workers 10 years later

Security forces open fire at the funeral of Syrian Kurdish opposition figure Mishaal al-Tammo, killing up to five people, activists say.

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Syrian forces ‘fire on mourners’

A Palestinian man has wounded seven Israelis near a Tel Aviv nightclub, ramming a car into a police checkpoint and stabbing five people, police say.

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Seven wounded in Tel Aviv attack

A US congresswoman has been critically injured in a shooting which has left five people dead.

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Chaotic scenes at Tucson shooting

Nearly one in five people currently living in the UK will survive to celebrate their 100th birthday, according to government estimates.

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Nearly one in five ‘to reach 100′

A helicopter rescue crew airlifted five people from a sinking fishing boat off the Alaska coast, the Coast Guard said.

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5 rescued from sinking boat off Alaska

A fire killed five people in Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday morning, a city official said.

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Baltimore fire kills 6

Two pilots involved in a mid-air collision which killed five people did not see each other or had no time to take effective action, the accident report finds.

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Pilots ‘did not see each other’

Police in southern California arrest a car driver following a head-on collision with a group of motorcyclists which leaves five people dead.

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Arrest after US motorcycle crash

Over-exploitation, pollution and mismanagement are putting water supplies of four in five people under pressure, a big global analysis says.

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Water map shows billions at risk

A man suspected in the shooting deaths of five people at a Lake Havasu City, Arizona, residence on Saturday night was found dead early Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.

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A Michigan prosecutor says stabbing attacks in his state that killed five people are linked to similar attacks in Virginia and Ohio.

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Stabbings in 3 states linked