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About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reported. Both factors contribute to the malnourishment and disease susceptibility of 3.7 billion people, he says.

The Insider obtained a recording in which appears actor David Hasselhoff in state of intoxication and that was made at the request of the own one affected.

Former President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin dies at age 76, the Kremlin says.

According to Q Magazine, Elvis Presley, half a century after his recording debut, remains the best voice.

A 330-foot-deep sinkhole killed at least two teenagers as it swallowed about a dozen homes early Friday and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.

1993 Playmate of the Year, Anna Nicole Smith, 39, who was born as Vickie Lynn Hogan, has been found unconscious in her hotel room. The attorneys confirmed that she was pronounced dead at a hospital less than an hour later.

Hrant Dink, the 53-year-old Turkish-Armenian journalist of the weekly Agos newspaper, was shot and killed Friday as he left his Istanbul newspaper building.

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's wife Terri has been handed the footage of her husband's death after Queensland authorities broke with protocol to ensure it did not get into the wrong hands.

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday.

Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president of the United States, has died. He was 93.

James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a giant of R&B and an inspiration for rap, funk and disco, died early Christmas morning. He was 73.