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Daredevil skier falls 1,000 feet, emerges unscathed

Pro-skier Angel Collinson was shooting a documentary in Alaska’s Neacola range in April 2015 when she tumbled and plummeted 1,000 feet (just over 304

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DISTURBING: Shocking hit-and-run caught on CCTV

Harrowing footage has been released of a hit-and-run collision that left a 53-year-old pedestrian with serious injuries on January 14. CCTV footage

Italy

Seventy injured in Sardinia metro collision

Dozens of passengers have been injured in a metro train collision in the Sardinian regional capital of Cagliari. At around 8 am local time two

France

Putting out the Ritz blaze brakes out glitzy hotel in Paris

A major fire has broken out at the prestigious Ritz hotel in Paris.Breaking: Fire breaks out in the Ritz Hotel in Paris via pfroissart</a> <a

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France

A second deadly avalanche in French Alps kills five soldiers

Five French soldiers have died and eight others injured in an avalanche in the Alps. All were members of the French Foreign Legion and were part of a

France

Avalanche kills five soldiers in French Alps

An avalanche has claimed the lives of five soldiers who were training off piste at the Valfréjus station in the French Alps, not far from the Italian

Italy

Italy: five killed in suspected gas explosion

At least five people have been killed as the result of an explosion in north western Italy. The blast, believed to have been caused by a gas leak

France

Botched drug trial leaves six in serious condition in France

One person is in a coma and five others are in a serious condition in France after taking part in a drugs trial that went wrong. The trial took place

France

French Alps avalanche: teacher led class onto closed, black-rated ski track

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into manslaughter after three people, including two teenagers, died in an avalanche in the French Alps on Wednesday.

France

Lyon students in shock after avalanche deaths

The students from Saint-Exupéry High School in Lyon, France, return the day after, struggling to come to terms with what happened the day before

World News

Hong Kong: local anger grows as five people mysteriously disappear

Five people with connections to the same publishing house have disappeared

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Impressive car accident in China

Turning your car into a soft-top is easier than you might think. This driver in the city of Ningbo, east China was able to look on the bright side

Sport

Dakar racer ploughs into spectators injuring ten

A car racing in the Dakar Rally careered off the road and smashed into a crowd of spectators injuring ten, five of them seriously.

China

China: miners must wait a week for rescue

Supplies passed down via boreholes

China

China: 11 rescued from mine collapse, 18 trapped

Hundreds of rescuers are working on freeing workers trapped in a collapsed mine in China’s Shandong province. Of the 29 miners working at the time of

China

Eighteen trapped in collapsed Chinese mine

Eleven people have been rescued after a gypsum mine collapsed in Shandong province in eastern China on Friday. Rescuers have made contact with

Nigeria

Nigeria: dozens feared dead after explosion destroys gas plant

An explosion at a cooking gas plant in south-eastern Nigeria has killed at least four people – although some reports say dozens more have died. The

China

Scores buried as mudslide engulfs buildings in China

Desperate search in Shenzhen

USA

Deadly Las Vegas crash treated as "intentional," but not terrorism

“The car was like a bowling ball and the human bodies were like pins” was the description one eyewitness gave after a motorist ploughed into a

Azerbaijan

{Watch} 30 workers presumed dead after oil rig fire in Caspian Sea

Twenty three workers are still missing and presumed dead after an oil rig fire in the Caspian Sea. Azerbaijan’s state energy company says 33 workers