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A woman jogging in a Philadelphia park has been killed by a falling tree branch just days after a similar incident in New York's Central Park left a man comatose.

A second worker died Friday after the roof of a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed in the French port city of Marseille, officials said.

One person was killed Thursday when a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed in Marseille, a fire department spokesman in the southern French city said.

An Indonesian military transport plane crashed into a residential area in east Java early Wednesday, killing 97 people, military officials said.

A car plowed into a parade that included Queen Beatrix and the Dutch royal family on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 13, Dutch officials said.

The father of a south-central Missouri baseball player who died after being hit by a wild throw said Friday that he doesn't blame the pitcher.

The first ambulance sent to a ski resort where actress Natasha Richardson suffered a fall that later proved to be fatal was turned ...

A popular 12-year-old boy was struck and killed by a bus in front of his middle school as he apparently horsed around with friends ...

Accidental deaths reignite debate over number of parents who sleep with their babies for bonding.

A small ferry overloaded with passengers sank in central Vietnam on Sunday, killing at least 40 people including seven girls and 27 women.