Police arrest serial killer – close case on abductions
Fire in bakery: hundreds dead
As with reporting speech, commas, colons, semi-colons, hyphens and so on can replace all conjunctions, or some joining verbs, to join clauses. Commas may also be used to join nouns (more common in American English).
Man kills 5, self
I’ve seen a lot of English-as-a-second-language Europeans puzzled by it on Reddit. I don’t know of a single, comprehensive resource that defines it; I just grabbed the above link as an example that lists some differences, and the bit talking about the peculiarity here.
Headlines grammar. Doesn’t work like regular English. It’s designed to be especially concise.
https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/8-grammar-rules-writing-newspaper-headlines/
I’ve seen a lot of English-as-a-second-language Europeans puzzled by it on Reddit. I don’t know of a single, comprehensive resource that defines it; I just grabbed the above link as an example that lists some differences, and the bit talking about the peculiarity here.