Man dies in Swiss chairlift accident
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A chairlift accident near the Alpine ski resort of Grindelwald killed one person and injured several others Thursday.
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"Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, who became a committed campaigner for spinal cord research after being paralyzed in a riding accident nine years ago, died of heart failure, his publicist said on Monday.
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A man dies following a collision involving two vans near Loughguile in County Antrim, police say.
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Christopher Reeve, the chiseled, strapping "Superman" of celluloid who became another kind of hero as a force for spinal cord research after a devastating horse-riding accident, has died at 52.
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Three-time Dakar Rally winner Richard Sainct has been killed in an accident during the fourth stage of the Rally of the Pharoahs in Egypt.
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An 83-year-old daredevil died after he fell attempting a death-slide jump, an inquest hears.
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An American stuntman in an Old West show at Disneyland Paris died from injuries sustained during a fight after work with a colleague, officials said Thursday.
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An elderly man dies of Legionnaires' disease on his return to Scotland from a coach tour to Italy.
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A man died after falling down an elevator shaft during a dispute at a posh Manhattan nightclub once featured on the popular television show "Sex and the City," police said.
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VIENNA, Austria -- Cyclist Andreas Matzbacher was killed in a car crash in southern Austria. He was 25.
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A 19-year-old man dies after a collision between a car and a forklift tractor in County Londonderry.
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A glider pilot has died and a passenger was seriously injured in a crash in the Highlands.
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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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Five Swiss firefighters were dead and two others were missing Saturday after a fire caused the ceiling of an underground car park to collapse.
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A man died after falling down an elevator shaft during a dispute at a swank Manhattan nightclub once featured on the popular television show "Sex and the City," police said.
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Seven Swiss firefighters were killed in the collapse of a parking garage ceiling in a fire in northern Switzerland, officials said today.
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A German climber died of cold and his British colleague was hospitalised with hypothermia after a night in a storm on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, Italian rescue workers said.