Topic: Injuries And Traumas
Valentino Rossi said he found it "easier" racing with a broken leg after narrowly missing out on a podium finish at the German MotoGP on his comeback from injury on Sunday. The reigning world champion returned to action just 42 days after sustaining an exposed fracture of the right tibia in a crash at Mugello but came close to snatching ...
Four Americans and at least three other foreigners were among 29 people killed in a hotel fire in northern Iraq that saw some of the victims jump to their deaths, officials said Friday. The massive blaze in Sulaimaniyah city, 270 kilometres (170 miles) north of Baghdad, broke out around 10.30 pm (1930 GMT) Thursday and raged for seven hours ...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed and over 100 were injured in two explosions in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan Thursday night, a provincial emergency official was quoted as saying by IRNA news agency . "In the two explosions in Zahedan more than 20 people were killed and over 100 were injured," Fariborz Rashedi, the head of the ...
Christians and Muslims have clashed in eastern Nigeria, leaving eight people dead and 40 seriously wounded, with six mosques and one church also torched, police said on Wednesday. In the latest sectarian violence to rock the country, fighting broke out Tuesday between Muslim and Christian youths in Wukari, a town in Taraba state, over the building of a mosque on ...
A bull rammed his horns into the groin of a British tourist on Wednesday as 11 people were injured on the last day of the Pamplona festival in northern Spain, the regional government said. The 24-year-old man from Yarm in northeastern England was in a "serious" condition in hospital during the eighth and final bull run of the festival. He ...
Liverpool are hopeful that the groin injury suffered by Spanish striker Fernando Torres in Sunday's World Cup final is not as serious as was first feared. The 26-year-old, who missed the end of the 2009-10 season with a knee injury, suffered the injury just before the end of the 1-0 win over the Netherlands. But Liverpool doctor Peter Brukner ...
In sports and fitness people learn techniques, and can train to have enjoyment from their sports or fitness. The problem is most coaches fail to train their students correctly. Injuries occur when improper training and methods are used. In addition, lots of people participate in sports activities neglecting to put on correct clothing, helmets, and so on, and sometimes people ...
A Canadian inquiry was wrong to conclude that electrical stun guns carry a risk of "serious injury or death," the US maker of Taser devices told a Canadian court on Monday. Taser International is challenging the findings of a commission into the October 2007 death of Polish traveler Robert Dziekanski at the airport in this Western Canadian city. Dziekanski, a ...
Two horses running out of control trampled children collecting candy and other onlookers along a Fourth of July parade route in a small Mississippi River town in eastern Iowa on Sunday. Twenty-four people were injured, including at least two children who were in critical condition, police and hospital officials said. The horses took off after one rubbed its head against ...
