Pole dies in Slovak avalanche
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A Polish mountain climber has been found dead under more than 6 feet of snow following an avalanche in the Tatra Mountains bordering Slovakia and Poland.
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A 40-year-old British doctor has been killed after falling at least 30 metres on to rocks when he took a wrong turn while snowboarding off-piste in the French Alps
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland - In Poland's worst mining disaster since the 1970s, all 23 miners caught in a gas explosion in a pit in the south of the country were confirmed dead on ...Comment
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An avalanche killed at least 16 people in the mountains of Tajikistan on Saturday while more people remained trapped under snow, an Interior Ministry official said.
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A young Spartak Moscow player has died  in hospital from injuries after being attacked on his way home,  the Russian ice hockey club said Monday.
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Czech Republic national ice hockey team coach, and former Pittsburgh Penguins coach, Ivan Hlinka died Monday after sustaining serious injuries in a car crash, an official said.
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A ski lift attendant who was buried beneath an avalanche was rescued Monday after a half hour of frantic digging, and experts warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snow slides in Austria's Alps.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - All 23 Polish miners caught in a gas explosion underground in a mine in southern Poland were confirmed dead on Thursday, in the country's worst mining disaster since the 1970s.
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A British journalist and four Greek climbers die in an avalanche in the southern mountains in Greece.
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Avalanches killed at least five skiers in the Swiss and French Alps on Sunday following days of heavy snow, authorities said.
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Six mountain climbers have died of  exposure in the Alps when temperatures plunged to well below  freezing, Italian and French officials said on Wednesday.
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A huge avalanche near Whitefish Mountain Resort killed two backcountry skiers and searchers combed the slide area for two other possible victims.
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Authorities ended a large-scale search for victims of last week's massive avalanche Monday and said there is a good chance a body found over the weekend was the lone victim.
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An extreme sportsman from Britain plunged to his death at the weekend after the 35-year-old base jumped off a cliff in the Swiss Alps but failed to open his parachute in time.
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A skier died Saturday and two others were injured after being buried in an avalanche in southeastern Austria, police said.
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Politics: 29 December 2004, Wednesday. A 24-aged worker found his death pressed down under a wall that collapsed during demolition works in the old part of Plovdiv, south Bulgaria.
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The Nashville Predators confirmed Wednesday night that center Sergei Zholtok had died in Latvia at the age of 31. While the NHL lockout was in progress, Zholtok had been playing with a team in his home of Riga.