A baby elephant has died after becoming stuck between a tree and a zoo wall in a freak accident while it was playing outside. The little tusker, called Yindi, 4,…
A one-year-old girl has died after she became infected by a super rare, brain-eating organism. The baby girl, from Caucaia, near Fortaleza, in the Brazilian state of Ceara, died on…
A baby girl died locked inside a hot car for five hours amid sweltering temperatures after her distracted father forgot about her in his rush to get to work. Little…
A holidaymaker has died after he was bitten in the leg by a venomous spider nesting in a restaurant's wicker chair in Brazil. The victim, named only as Vinicius, had…
A 107-year-old Italian World War II veteran who fought the Nazis as a resistance fighter and ended up in a Nazi concentration camp has died. Pasquale Gissi, known to locals…
The mother of a 10-year-old girl who was rushed to hospital with a suspected sprained ankle has said that she is "living in hell" since her daughter tragically died after…
A five-year-old girl died in agony from a scorpion sting because her family were unable to find a hospital with the right anti-venom serum to save her in time. Little…
A teenage boy in Mexico has died from rabies after being bitten by a rabid bat. The State Health Secretariat confirmed the death of the 13-year-old boy after he was…
One of the oldest giant pandas in the world has died aged 28 from a cardiac arrest, her zoo in Japan has announced. Female Tan Tan, who had suffered from…
A giant Galapagos tortoise has died at the age of 125 after suffering multiple health complications due to his old age, zoo officials said. The sweet potato-loving tortoise, reportedly the…