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A Chinese student who stabbed his roommate to death because of his loud snoring was given a suspended death sentence. Guo Liwei, 24, stabbed Zhao Yan, 23, in the chest and back in their room at Jilin Agricultural University in northeast China. Guo previously complained to Zhao and posted a video of him snoring on a university website. [AP] 27 Mar 2010.

Robert Jones, 38, of Woodstock, Georgia, was jogging along the beach on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina on 15 March when he was hit from behind and killed instantly by a small plane making an emergency landing.