A hiker plunged to her death down a mountain ravine after slipping over the edge of a cliff while her friends could only listen to her screams of terror. Mariacristina Masocco, 26, poses in undated photo. She was hiking with three friends from Punta del Comedon towards Passo del Comedon…
A pilot who crashed his motorised glider plane into two houses in Germany during a sightseeing tour had suffered a heart attack and died before he crashed, according to a forensic report. Pilots Roland Stanek, 79, and Andrea Droessler, pose in undated photo. The victim received a 'Badge of Honor'…
An eight-month-old baby died when she was crushed by a concrete pillar that collapsed as she lay in a hammock on her family's porch. Little Maria Liz was lying in the hammock with her father at the family home in Ico, Ceara State, Brazil, on 14th November when the pillar…
A teenage girl died shortly after she was released from a grim detention centre in Iran, with officials saying she died of an "overdose". Yalda Aghafazli was seized by security police at an anti-regime demonstration in Enghelab Square in central Tehran on 26th October. She was taken into custody and…
New research has suggested that Otzi the 5,300-year-old prehistoric iceman did not die in autumn before being preserved under winter snow, and instead had died in early spring on a high Alpine snow field. Image shows the investigation of Otzi in South Tyrol, Austria, undated photo. The South Tyrolean Museum…
