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A top executive at a US healthcare facility has resigned amid a pending investigation into a woman giving birth despite being in a vegetative state for more than a decade.

A 22-year-old intern who was killed by a lion at a US wildlife education centre was following her greatest passion when tragedy struck, her family says.

A 13-year-old US girl who won an award for an essay condemning gun violence was killed by a stray bullet that entered her bedroom this week.

A convicted murderer claims to have killed more than 90 people between 1970 and 2013, which would make him the most prolific killer in the US.

A young couple leaving their wedding were killed when the helicopter carrying them crashed in Texas at the weekend.

Police who searched the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul found evidence that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed there, a high-level Turkish official says.

A consortium of scientists has published the first fully annotated sequence of the wheat genome, which they hope will eventually reduce the risk of food scarcity on our planet.

A British cave diver involved in the Thailand cave rescue says he is considering legal action against Elon Musk after the Tesla chief executive suggested on Twitter the diver was a paedophile.

Musician Richard Swift, who played as a member of the Shins and toured with the Black Keys, has died at the age of 41.