The team used 36 brains taken from patients who had died within three weeks of bypass surgery.

BBC: Brain damage risk from slow heart ops

Three family members who died from carbon monoxide poisoning would have been "unconscious within minutes", a fire service has said.

BBC: Carbon monoxide deaths: Family 'unconscious in minutes'

The proportion of people who died within 30 days of emergency surgery ranged from 3, 936.31 per 100, 000 patients in Barnsley to 1, 589.66 per 100, 000 patients in Croydon.

BBC: Emergency re-admissions rise sharply

The study comes a year after DVT hit the headlines with the death of 28-year-old Emma Christofferson from Newport, south Wales, who died within minutes of leaving a 20-hour flight after a holiday in Australia.

BBC: Civil Aviation Authority report

Meanwhile, yesterday, two people were killed within a few blocks of where I teach and both died from handgun wounds.

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Mubarak came to power in 1981, after then-President Anwar Sadat died in a hail of gunfire at a military parade -- killed by Islamic militants from within the army's own ranks after he took the dramatic step of making peace with Israel.

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