German police warned Wednesday of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two teenage girls was linked to the drug. Police in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania said that a 13-year-old girl from
A temple chariot caught fire Wednesday killing at least six people and leaving 10 others with burns after it came in contact with an overhead high-tension electric wire in India’s remote northeast, a state lawmaker said. A large crowd was part of
A boat was not involved in the deaths of two young people at Bournemouth pier, investigators have said. The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said it will not carry out a full inquiry into what happened on May 31 after a “thorough”
A luxury resort in Mexico owned by Hyatt has shuttered its doors after an American couple was found dead in their room earlier this month. The bodies of John Heathco, 41, and Abby Lutz, 28, were discovered by housekeepers on June 13
Indonesia’s police are conducting preliminary inquiries into whether any actions by officials at the country’s drug regulator could amount to criminal wrongdoing, as they expand a probe into tainted cough syrups linked to the deaths of more than 200 children across the
When hundreds of birds were found dead along Mexico’s Pacific coast earlier this year, experts immediately suspected avian flu. But the government said Thursday that the warming Pacific ocean currents associated with El Niño, not bird flu, were responsible for the mass
Officers investigating the deaths of a man and a woman have issued a warning about a dangerous “synthetic opioid”. Police say a man and a woman – both in their 40s – were found dead at a property in Basildon, Essex, on
A mammoth three-year public inquiry into the U.K. government’s handling of the response to COVID-19 opened Tuesday by asking if some suffering and death could have been avoided with better planning — and whether Britain’s complex, protracted exit from the European Union
A 49-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the deaths of two people in Stoke-on-Trent. Police were called to a car wash on Campbell Road just after 2pm on Sunday following reports of an assault involving a man and
Deaths of around 40 patients at an underperforming hospital trust are being investigated by police. It comes after allegations of medical negligence made by two top surgeons. The consultants lost their jobs at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, East Sussex, after