British sportsman plunges to death in Swiss Alps base-jumping drama
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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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One man dies and four crew members are rescued when a yacht capsizes in the English Channel.
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By Robin Turner  Tombstoning - the craze in which people jump into the sea from rocks or tall buildings - will kill again, coastguards warned last night. Their alert follows the death of a 46-year-old man from South Wales, who died after jumping 30ft into the sea off the South Devon coast.
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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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A Briton has been knocked over and killed in Athens by an Olympic competitor driving to an event. Errol Strachan, 45, was walking in the city centre when he was hit.
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A Scottish rider has been killed and a spectator injured at the Ulster Grand Prix.
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A British soldier serving with the NATO force in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has died in an accident at a military base there, the Ministry of Defence in London told AFP.
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A UK snowboarder has died after spending a night trapped at the bottom of a 150m-deep canyon, German police have said.
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The captain of a Scottish Premier League soccer team died Saturday, collapsing during a game just as he was about to leave the field for a substitute.
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Pakistan's World Cup cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, almost certainly died of heart failure, Jamaica police said on Wednesday, a day after ending a high-profile investigation into his murder.
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Four Britons have committed suicide with the help of doctors at a Swiss clinic in the last six weeks, a British voluntary euthanasia pressure group said to highlight their call for a law change.
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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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The country is beset by its biggest match-fixing scandal in two dozen years, and a former teammate is fighting for his life after falling from a window.
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A member of Britain's Parachute Regiment was killed after being shot during a search and detention operation in the southern city of Basra, the Ministry of Defence has said.
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Snowboarder Line Oestvold, who became the first Norwegian ever to win a World Cup event this past February, died Sunday after sustaining head and neck injuries in a fall during a training session in Chile.
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An avalanche in central Switzerland has killed six people, rescue services said Thursday.
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A serviceman is killed during an exercise in Herefordshire involving a helicopter, the Ministry of Defence says.