TUCSON — Bells rang across Tucson on Sunday marking the exact time last year that the city was rocked by a deadly shooting rampage that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gravely wounded and six people dead. The bells at 10:11 a.m., the moment of the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting, opened a day of remembrance events across Tucson for survivors of the shooting, the victims’ families and city residents. Read full article > >

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Bells toll as Tucson marks anniversary of deadly shooting rampage

“Everything that I think about the victims — it’s hard to face, because there’s nothing I can do about any of it,” Ruth Madoff said in an interview.

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Madoff Family Aims to Write Its Own Future

“Everything that I think about the victims — it’s hard to face, because there’s nothing I can do about any of it,” Ruth Madoff said in an interview.

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Madoff Family Aims to Write Its Own Future

“Everything that I think about the victims — it’s hard to face, because there’s nothing I can do about any of it,” Ruth Madoff said in an interview.

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Madoff Family Aims to Write Its Own Future

The world is facing a growing avalanche of death from heart attack, stroke, cancer, emphysema and diabetes, with many of the victims working-age people in poor countries. Up to half of those deaths could be prevented or deferred by implementing a short list of interventions, some by individual people and some by governments. But no country is doing all it could. Read full article > >

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WHO warns of growing epidemic of premature death from ‘noncommunicable diseases’

Teachers as well as children are the victims of online bullying with parents responsible for a quarter of the abuse, according to a study.

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Third of teachers ‘cyberbullied’

A 19-year-old man who allegedly attacked a woman outside the Columbia Heights Metro station was charged with a hate crime this week — 10 days, the victim says, after seven police officers refused to take action immediately after the attack. Christian Washington of Northwest Washington was charged with bias-related assault Tuesday. The police response to the attack, in which five lesbians were attacked by at least two men, attracted scrutiny from members of the city’s gay, lesbian and transgender community after the victims said responding officers refused to take a report. Read full article > >

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D.C. man charged with hate crime against lesbian

Fearing aftershocks, thousands fled the Spanish town of Lorca Thursday-only one day after devastating twin earthquakes hit, leaving nine dead and nearly 3,000 homeless. Funerals for some of the victims are set to start Friday; an open-air funeral mass…

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Thousands Flee Spain Quake Site

Families of the victims of the 7/7 London bombings have welcomed a coroner’s ruling that they were unlawfully killed, but some have vowed to seek a public inquiry.

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VIDEO: 7/7: ‘Nothing will bring my son back’

Families of the victims of the 7/7 London bombings have welcomed a coroner’s ruling that they were unlawfully killed, but some have vowed to seek a public inquiry.

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VIDEO: 7/7: ‘Nothing will bring my son back’

The body of one of the victims of Air France Flight 447 was recovered from deep in the Atlantic Ocean, French authorities said Thursday.

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Body pulled from jet in ocean depths

The suspect in the murders of a family of four had lost a substantial sum of money in a court ruling made in favour of two of the victims, police reveal.

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Murder suspect ‘in money dispute’

Three children who died after drinking tainted milk appear to have been the victims of deliberate poisoning, Chinese state media says.

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China milk poisoning ‘deliberate’

Ruth Sergel, founder of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, is determined to stoke “communal memory” and pay tribute to the victims of the tragedy in 1911.

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City Room: In a Tragedy, a Mission To Remember

At least 40 people have died in a U.S. drone strike in the Pakistani region of North Waziristan, local officials say-the deadliest attack since 2006, according to the BBC. Most of the victims are thought to be civilians, though earlier reports said…

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