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What we know about the death of Liam Payne

Oct. 24, 2024 16:59 PM EDT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine authorities continue to investigate the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died Oct. 16 at age 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. Payne was a beloved member of the group, which formed in 2010 after its...

Argentine police raid the Buenos Aires hotel where One Direction’s Liam Payne died

Oct. 24, 2024 16:55 PM EDT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's police raided the Buenos Aires hotel where ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne stayed before dying last week after falling from a third-floor balcony, a government official said Thursday. A police special investigations unit went to the...

Initial report shows Liam Payne had cocaine in his system when he died, says Argentine official

Oct. 21, 2024 18:06 PM EDT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An initial toxicology report for ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died last week after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, showed that he had cocaine in his system after his death, an Argentine official said. The final...

Directioners mourning singer Liam Payne leave tributes in London and other cities

Oct. 20, 2024 20:33 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds gathered Sunday in London’s Kensington Gardens to mourn Liam Payne as fans around the world grieved for the One Direction singer who died this past week. Directioners, as supporters of the massively successful boy band are known, left tributes in London,...

Argentine authorities probe what happened before Liam Payne's fatal fall from his hotel balcony

Oct. 17, 2024 22:03 PM EDT

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The circumstances surrounding the death of ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne were suspicious and possibly involved drugs, though there was no sign of a third party being involved, Argentine prosecutors said Thursday. Payne, 31, who died on Wednesday,...

Salvatore 'Totò' Schillaci, the Italy striker who was top scorer at 1990 World Cup, dies at 59

Sep. 18, 2024 06:44 AM EDT

ROME (AP) — Salvatore “Totò” Schillaci, the Italy striker who was top scorer at the 1990 World Cup that his country hosted and epitomized a player exceeding expectations on soccer’s biggest stage, has died. He was 59. Schillaci had been hospitalized in Palermo following...

Italy's deputy premier Matteo Salvini faces a potential 6-year prison sentence in migration trial

Sep. 15, 2024 05:55 AM EDT

ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors on Saturday requested a six-year prison sentence for right-wing League leader Matteo Salvin i for his decision to prevent more than 100 migrants from landing in Italy when he was interior minister in 2019. If convicted Salvini could be barred from holding...

Deep seas and tight spaces impede search for 6 missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

Aug. 20, 2024 19:35 PM EDT

PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — Police divers resumed searching Tuesday for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank in deep seas off Sicily, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who was celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with the people who had defended...