Former French President Jacques Chirac, known for a carefully crafted "everyman" image but whose later years were dogged by allegations of corruption, has died at the age of 86.

 The owner of Leicester City FC died when his helicopter crashed outside the stadium, the club has confirmed.

 Two people, including the gunman and a young woman, have been killed and 13 others injured in a shooting incident in Toronto,

 Richard Swift, a former member of the Shins and touring bassist with The Black Keys, has died, aged 41.

 Chester Bennington, the lead singer of Linkin Park, was found dead on Thursday of apparent suicide a week before the California alt-rock band was due to embark on a U.S. tour.

 Actor Roger Moore, who earned international fame playing British secret agent James Bond in seven movies, died of cancer on Tuesday at the age of 89,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese police have confirmed the death of a Vietnamese girl in Akibo, Chiba Prefecture, who was reported missing last Friday,

 Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A woman from the central province of Nghe An was arrested on February 12 while transporting six dead, frozen monkeys in a sack.

Hong Kong's richest woman, Nina Wang, has died from an unspecified illness, her spokesman has said.

The fire at a 2-storey house specializing in making motorcycle saddles in Bien Hoa city, Dong Nai province at 7pm, December 22 caused five deaths, including the elderly and children of the same family.

"Hue is the ancient capital, with influence from the feudal period, so the shrouding task must be good enough to maintain corpses for up to two week without stench," said Hung, who has shrouded the dead for 23 years.

VietNamNet Bridge - This morning, May 2, a 12-year-old student in the central province of Ha Tinh was struck dead by lightning amid the school yard.

A Vietnamese worker was reported to have died in Angola on April 12. This is the third Vietnamese worker who died in this country in the last few months. All of them came from the central province of Nghe An.

VietNamNet Bridge – A man was found dead at the foot of a pine tree, after a loud explosion when it was about to rain. Next to the body of the victim was a broken cell phone.

In the past five years, there were 1,868 people dead and missing in natural disasters in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the management of boats and fishermen at sea is limited, said Nguyen Xuan Dieu - Deputy Chief of the General Department of Irrigation.

VietNamNet Bridge - Wriggling over several long, narrow and winding alleys of Doan Van Bo Road, Ward 16, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, we arrived at a dead-end alley.

Two passengers buses collided early this morning in central Khanh Hoa Province, leaving at least 11 people dead and 49 more seriously injured.

On the evening of March 5, an intense fire erupted at a shop selling incense and votive papers on Han Hai Nguyen Street in Ward 10, District 11, Ho Chi Minh City. Two people were injured while three unknown carbonized bodies were found.