Once open seven days a week for as many as 11 hours a day, today the Schneider Medical Clinic is closed and the couple who ran the clinic are in jail.

British businessman Mohamed al-Fayed has told a London inquest into the deaths of his son and Britain's Princess Diana he is convinced the couple's death in a car crash was murder.

China's Health Ministry says a 22-year old man from the central province of Hunan has died of bird flu, the country's first death from the disease this year.

An exiled Georgian opposition leader who led and financed recent efforts to unseat President Mikhail Saakashvili, has been found dead outside London.

The velvet-voiced French musician Henri Salvador died at his Paris home of an aneurysm Wednesday. He was 90.

U.S. Representative Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor elected to the U.S. Congress, has died. He was 80 years old.

Dozens workers were injured in a night explosion that rocked a sugar dust refinery in Georgia. Waterfront facility burst into flame. Firefighters still were fighting the fire Friday morning. Six people are missing.

At least eight people were killed and hundreds more were forced to leave their snowbound villages. Avalanches brought tonnes of snow in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.

A reclusive Indian mystic who became an influential figure in 20th century popular culture around the world has died. As VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was far more appreciated in the West than in his homeland.

U.S. law enforcement officials say at least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured as tornadoes and thunderstorms tore through parts of the U.S. south.

The New York City medical examiner announced that Australian actor Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of painkillers, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medication and other prescription drugs.

Two Mississippi young people have died from the flu, that is the start of what could be a tough flu season, the state health department's spokesman said.