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A post-mortem last week discounted suicide - but a medical examiner said full results could take several weeks. Prince, 57, was found dead in a lift on his Paisley Park estate on 21 April. There was no sign of trauma on the body, Sheriff Jim Olson said, suggesting the singer had died alone. The DEA will be working to "determine such things as where the medications came from, and what prescriptions Prince had obtained," NBC reported. There have been suggestions the star was addicted to the painkiller Percocet, which he had been taking since 2009 to relieve hip pain. His former percussionist, Sheila E, told the news agency Prince had suffered the effects of years of jumping off speakers on stage while wearing high heels. However, claims of drug dependency have been refuted by the singer's long-time lawyer, L Londell McMillan. Although Mr McMillan admitted that Prince ...

At least 61 killed in Aleppo airstrikes, including 14 Doctors Without Borders staff, patients. . A wave of nighttime airstrikes rocked the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo, with one strike at a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders killing at least 27 people, including children and one of Syria's last pediatricians, activists said Thursday. Some of the overnight strikes, blamed largely on the embattled government in Damascus, hit the well-known al-Quds field hospital in the Sukkari district in Aleppo, according to opposition activists and rescue workers. They said 14 doctors and patients were among the dead. A separate blitz in Aleppo reportedly killed 20, raising the 24-hour death toll in the key city to at least 61. Senior opposition official Anas al-Abdeh, the head of the Syrian National Council, c...