Iceman 'bled to death on glacier'
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The mystery of what killed Oetzi - the 5,300-year-old Iceman found in the Alps - may finally be over.
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At least one person has died after being injected with a purported treatment for Lyme disease, health officials said Friday in warning doctors and patients to avoid the unapproved product.
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Former U.S. figure skating champion Christopher Bowman died of a suspected drug overdose in a Los Angeles motel on Thursday, authorities said. He was 40.
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"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was videotaped pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest just before he died, according to news reports. Irwin's manager John Stainton described the footage of his friend dying as "terrible," according to The Associated Press.
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Figure skating Two-time US champion Christopher Bowman , figure skating's "Bowman the Showman," was found dead at 40 in a Los Angeles-area motel. According to authorities, Bowman, the national titlist in 1989 and '92, died of a possible drug overdose. Bowman, a two-time world medalist, also competed in the 1988 and '92 Winter Olympics, finishing seventh and fourth, respectively.
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Pat Danahy , who is credited with being the first person to ski Mount Snow, died last Thursday after a short illness. He was 84.
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A British tourist found dead in the Australian outback near its famed Ayers Rock may have died of heat exhaustion and exposure, police said.
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Â· Canadian considered eating own leg to survive Â· Chance rescue by hiker ended 96-hour ordeal
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A man captured after a night on the run in the snowy wilderness confessed to killing his wife in the couple's home while their children were there and later dismembering her, authorities said Monday.
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A British soldier bled to death in Afghanistan because of faulty equipment, compounded by incompetence, according to a military inquiry into the incident
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Police prepare to carry out a post-mortem on a man who died following a "disturbance" at a Butlins resort.
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Robert Charles Browne says he shot some of his victims and strangled others, in one case with a pair of leather shoelaces. He knocked out one woman with ether, then used an ice pick on her. He put a rag soaked in ant killer over another victim's face and stabbed her nearly 30 times with a screwdriver.
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The death of a man near a bar in the Waterside area of Londonderry is being treated as murder, police say.
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A mountain climber watched in horror as her guide plummeted to his death on New Zealand's highest mountain on New Year's Day, police said.
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Dozens of young seals on a remote island off Ireland&#39;s south-west coast have been shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in an incident that has been condemned as cruel and barbaric.
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An Australian man descending a rocky slope as part of a 400-mile adventure race was struck and killed by a falling boulder.
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INNSBRUCK -- An avalanche killed two skiers and seriously injured another yesterday, and specialists warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snowslides in Austria's Alps. A 41-year-old American and a 39-year-old German died in an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg in the southwestern province of Vorarlberg that also critically injured the American's wife, also 41, the ...