A 21-year-old hiker named Richard Jacobson died after he slipped from the top of an Arizona mountain while taking a selfie. His body was recovered after a fellow hiking companion called 911 at 12:45 am on Monday.

21-year-old hiker dies while trying to take a selfie from mountain top

Harry Reid, the Democrat who rose from childhood poverty in the rural Nevada desert to the heights of power in Washington, where he steered the Affordable Care Act to passage as Senate majority leader, died Tuesday in Henderson, Nevada.

Harry M Reid, a power in the Senate, dies at 82

The death toll in Sudan from anti-coup protests since last month's military takeover has risen to at least 40, medics said Saturday after a teenager shot in the head days earlier died.

Sudan: 40 people die due to anti-coup protests, says medics

The first Black US secretary of state, Colin Powell, has died from complications due to COVID-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84. His leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last few years of the 20th century.

Colin Powell dies at 84 due to COVID-19 complications

No one knew the man’s name when he washed ashore. His body had floated in the ocean for weeks, and it then sat much of the summer unidentified in a refrigerator in a Spanish morgue.

The body collector of Spain: When migrants die at sea, he gets them home

14 people have died of alcohol poisoning in Russia, officials said Friday, with investigators launching criminal probes. An additional eight people were hospitalised in the region of Orenburg, around 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) southeast of Moscow in the southern Urals.

14 die of alcohol poisoning in Russia

The governors of New York and New Jersey have declared a state of emergency late as record-breaking rains from tropical storm Ida led to flooding and hazardous conditions on the roads, with media reporting at least six deaths.

Hurricane Ida: Emergency declared in New York amid flooding; 7 dead

Five people died in a hot air balloon accident in Albuquerque, in the southwestern United States, the city's police announced Saturday. The accident caused power outages in the area for several hours after the balloon came into contact with a power line.

Five die in US hot air balloon accident

Four other workers were injured as a concrete slab collapsed

Nine construction workers die on site in India

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