Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins has resigned from a Vatican panel set up to fight sex abuse in the church.

An Indian man who survived the Dubai plane crash last week has been dubbed the “world’s luckiest man” after he won a $1m lottery just six days later.

One of the victims of the shooting at Orlando's Pulse nightclub wrote a poem as she lay in a hospital bed on Monday night.

A man who was pulled alive from the rubble after the devastating earthquake which struck Ecuador has told how his wife had already bought a coffin for his funeral.

A survivor of the Dunblane massacre has told how she both hates and pities gunman, Thomas Hamilton, 20 years after the shooting.

Bob Geldof last year shared in a fresh £2.25m (€3m) windfall in dividends from the production firm behind the successful reality television show, Survivor.

Polish-born Thomas Blatt, who lost both parents and a younger brother in the gas chambers of the Nazis’ Sobibor extermination camp, has died at his US home, aged 88.

Rescuers have pulled a survivor from under the wreckage of apartments and shops that were flattened after two cranes being used in the restoration of a bridge toppled on to a row of buildings.

This week, Bridesmaids’ Melissa McCarthy stars in action-packed comedy caper Spy, the spooks and scares return in horror prequel Insidious: Chapter 3 and Pierce Brosnan and Milla Jovovich discover no one can be trusted in Survivor.

Last month she also shared this fun snap of her and her family celebrating her final day of chemotherapy.

A former Survivor producer has been convicted of murdering his wife during a 2010 Cancun beach holiday, a state prosecutor said.