With amateur helpers and homemade instruments, a Swedish medical student faced the test of a lifetime – to perform a complex eye operation on a fellow Antarctic explorer.
She spent three months in the hospital after a horrific bike accident. Almost dying is nothing close to what you’d imagine.
This is the real story of a prisoner at the infamous Alcatraz prison, incarcerated at the same time as mobster Al Capone.
The fog that descended on Britain in December 1952 was no typical fog.
The little girl’s life was ebbing as she lay pinned to the track.
Caroline had told Steve many times about the fear that haunted her. But now it was for real.
The largest of the Zeppelin airships was built to represent Nazi superiority. It was a dangerously fragile behemoth.
When Sally Pratley saw that a little boy was missing, she knew she had to help.
Stay and fight, or abandon your home? As one family struggles to decide, the flames sweep in
Without realising it, the river guide and his clients were headed straight towards the rogue hippo’s territory
A young footballer lay dying in a remote West Australian town. And all Steve Hindley had to save his life with was a rusty drill bit
… there was something strange going on that night at the George and Dragon Inn.
The man saw a little girl struggling in the icy water, beyond his reach. He shouted to his dog: “Go get her!”
As the star of a snowboarding film, Brock Crouch prepared to carve up a mountain. One misstep later, he found himself fighting to survive an avalanche of his own making.
Six climbers were trapped high on a deadly mountain. It would take a never-before-attempted helicopter mission to reach them.
