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Saudi Arabia posted job ads for eight new executioners in 2015 as beheadings surged — 85 executions by mid-May, nearly matching the whole of 2014.
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Suchitra Sharma reflects on how Facebook memorialized accounts keep a loved one's presence alive — 'life goes on' even after death, in the virtual world.
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Sunanda Pushkar died in January 2014 amid a public marriage crisis. A reflection on what was known then — and what the case became.
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A 25-year-old mechanic in Bangalore district was arrested after his 20-day-old daughter died of poisoned milk — allegedly because he wanted a son.
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Anuradha Bali alias Fiza, the estranged second wife of former Haryana deputy CM Chander Mohan, was found dead in Mohali and cremated per Hindu rites.
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A Swiss woman died of starvation after attempting 'Breatharianism' — living on sunlight alone. The medical verdict on the lethal belief is unambiguous.
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In May 2012 Dharun Ravi received 30 days in jail for spying on Tyler Clementi — a sentence that satisfied almost no one in one of America's most debated
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Naperville parents Paul and Amy Miller, who lost 18-year-old daughter Megan to heroin, began educating other families about the drug's reach into suburbia.
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One DMV clerk, one refused donor box, and the real arithmetic of giving: a single donor’s organs reach several people on the waiting list.
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IPS officer Narendra Kumar was run over while trying to stop illegal mining in Morena, Madhya Pradesh, in March 2012. The questions his death left behind.
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When an apple fell on Newton’s head , he did not just eat it to satisfy his hunger , au contraire he used it as an excuse to get into the depth of the…
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Just like the lotus flower which blooms and opens up its outer petals to reveal the inner whorl , this book also unfolds layers of the saga called…
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