World class mountaineer Gabriel Filippi decided last Saturday to drop his attempt to scale Pakistan's Nanga Parbat so he could return to the capital city of Islamabad to spend more time with his family.

A car crash that claimed the lives of five California teens could have killed six, but Tamer Mosallam's father refused to let him go on the road trip because he had to study for a test.

Well, if it wasn't his lucky belt buckle before, it certainly is now.

An infant in Russia came thisclose to getting crush beneath the wheels of a truck after being tossed onto the icy pavement following a collision between her family's Mitsubishi and a big rig.

Authorities in the Czech Republic city of Zlin rushed to save a 21-year-old woman who had climbed a 40-foot high-voltage transmission tower, believing it to be a bridge.

Canadian Pacific Rail employees searching for an Alberta man who had just been run over by a train were shocked to find him unhurt underneath the 26th car.