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Warnings over viral

Wellington, New Zealand —  A 19-year-old New Zealand man has died after taking part in a new tackling game that’s trending on social media in which competitors run at each other and collide while wearing no protective equipment. Police confirmed Ryan Satterthwaite suffered a head injury on Sunday while playing a backyard game with friends in […]

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74-year-old hiker dies while attempting rim-to-rim hike at Grand Canyon

A 74-year-old man died while hiking the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service said Monday. The man, identified as Dennis Smith of Olympia, Washington, was attempting to hike from the canyon’s South Rim to the North Rim, the park service said. The rim-to-rim trek covers a distance of about 24 miles and is described as […]

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Woman dies trying to scale world’s 3rd-highest mountain; another climber rescued

A 63-year-old French climber has died trying to scale the world’s third-highest mountain, Kanchenjunga, the expedition’s organizer said on Monday, while British media reported a U.K. climber on the same peak was rescued. Margareta Morin died above Camp 4 of the 28,169-foot Himalayan mountain on Saturday. “She died due to health complications while ascending,” Yogendra […]

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