Two decades after his death, former President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines is being formally considered for a burial with honors in a cemetery reserved for prominent figures.
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Batac Journal: A Hero’s Burial for Long-Dead President Marcos? It’s Being Considered
Philip Larkin’s first publisher remembers the poet 25 years after his death
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Larkin and me
A young boy fell to his death from a luxury suite at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on Sunday night, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Boy falls to death at Lakers game
Is this the oldest bestseller ever? Publishers routinely set release dates far in advance, and keep a book’s secrets under wrap to build anticipation, but Mark Twain’s demand that his memoir be published a century after his death surely must set some…
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Mark Twain Memoir a Surprise Hit
The disgruntled client of a faith healer who lured him to his death in Bedfordshire is jailed for 10 years for his manslaughter.
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Killer of faith healer is jailed
Another worker has jumped to his death at the factory of iPhone-maker Foxconn in Shenzhen, China-the fourteenth at a Chinese Foxconn factory this year. Most of these deaths have occurred in Shenzhen, where migrant workers fill the factories. Foxconn…
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Another Foxconn Worker Commits Suicide
Declan Sullivan, a 20-year-old Notre Dame student, fell to his death on Wednesday when the tower he was standing on collapsed while he was filming the school’s football practice. Shortly before he fell, he tweeted about being on the tower, “Holy…
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Notre Dame Student Falls to Death
A man is swept to his death after falling at one of England’s highest waterfalls in County Durham.
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Man dies in plunge down waterfall
What made Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi jump off of a bridge to his death?
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Opinion: Why did Tyler Clementi die?
Police appeal for witnesses who may have seen a millionaire businessman before he fell to his death while riding a motorised scooter.
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Appeal over Segway tycoon death
Hikers in Canada discover the frozen body of an American ice climber who fell to his death more than two decades ago.
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Corpse of long-lost climber found
Jimi Hendrix’s Mayfair flat is opening to visitors as part of an exhibition marking his death 40 years ago next month
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A look around Jimi Hendrix’s London pad
Batac Journal: A Hero’s Burial for Long-Dead President Marcos? It’s Being Considered
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
