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This is reminiscent of all the dutiful grandchildren and great-grandchildren lingering over deathbeds with digital recorders, or else manically pursuing their ancestors through the online genealogy sites at three in the morning, so very eager to reconstitute the lives and thoughts of dead and soon-to-be-dead men, though they may regularly screen the phone calls of their own mothers.
NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior
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Marine Lt Col Brennan Byrne has told AP that most of the dead are "military-age men".
BBC: NEWS | Americas | Iraq death toll reaches new high
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Staring up, he sees a circle of six dead-serious-looking young men.
NPR: 'Straight Outta Compton,' 20 Years Later
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The inquiry, named after one of the dead men, 19-year old Hamid al-Sweady, is the second public inquiry into allegations of abuse by British troops in Iraq, following one that examined the death in 2003 of Baha Mousa.
BBC: Al-Sweady inquiry shown Iraq 'torture' photographs
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Three of the dead men were from Stanton - Thomas Hazelton, who was 30, his brother Dan, who was 26, and Peter Johnson, who was 42.
BBC: Emergency services at the scene of the accident
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The Afghan army said the dead men had links to al-Qaeda.
BBC: No Afghan help for residential air strikes - Karzai
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So many of the dead are men and women in their mid-20s or older and married, often with children.
NPR: Draft Left Fighting of Wars to Younger Soldiers
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Elsewhere in the state, in Mexico's north-west, four men were found shot dead in the town of Mocorito, while another three people were killed in Guamuchil, officials said.
BBC: Mexico police find 17 burned bodies in two vehicles
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Post-mortem examinations carried out on the bodies of two men found dead in a house in Cornwall have proved inconclusive, police say.
BBC: Post-mortem exams on Saltash men 'inconclusive'
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First, the editors changed the makeup of their advisory panel. (The original hundred advisers were not dead white men, but most of them were white men, and the average age was sixty-eight.) Some definitions were made more relativist.
NEWYORKER: The English Wars
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The dead body of the 59-year old Silvestre was found a few hours after he had been kidnapped by four men in La Romana.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES