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An 11-year-old girl died Friday after falling from a Ferris wheel while on a class trip to an amusement park in New Jersey, police said.

A model celebrating her birthday died and another woman was critically injured when they plunged from a 10th-story window of a luxury Atlanta hotel early Saturday morning, investigators said.

Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru died in a fall from a balcony after a domestic dispute involving his wife and another woman, police said Monday. One police official said Wanjiru committed suicide, while another said he jumped to stop his wife from leaving the house after she discovered him with another woman.

A climber who plunged 1,000 feet (300 meters) from one of Britain's highest mountains - and walked away - is promising to climb Mount Everest later this year.

Singer Jimmy Buffett fell off a stage at the end of a concert in Sydney and was rushed to the hospital.

Witnesses say they saw a woman throw herself from the 23rd story of a Buenos Aires hotel Monday and survive.

Romania's government survived a no-confidence motion in Parliament on Thursday in a session overshadowed by a man who flung himself from the chamber's balcony, apparently in protest over government budget cuts that had affected his family....

A young boy fell to his death from a luxury suite at Los Angeles' Staples Center on Sunday night, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.

Accidental falls are the leading injury-related reason why Americans seek emergency medical care, with nearly 9 million visits a year, but some ...

It's been said before: just because you fall 40 stories from a tall building doesn't necessarily means it's the end, or something like that.