A boy of 12 stunned doctors by cheating death after his head was ripped from his neck in a car crash.
Chris Stewart, a junior racing driver, suffered “internal decapitation” - which kills most people - when his 1000cc Mini slammed into a crash barrier at 50mph after a tyre burst during a children’s race.
The impact [...]

· Body temperature fell to 22C but clean bill of health
· First known human case may help future treatment

Mitsutaka Uchikoshi can only recall his second day on the mountain.
A Japanese civil servant has described for the first time how he survived for more than three weeks in a mountain forest without food or water in [...]

Strapped to a gurney in Texas’ death chamber earlier this year, just moments from his execution for setting a fire that killed his three daughters, Cameron Todd Willingham declared his innocence one last time.
“I am an innocent man, convicted of a crime I did not commit,” Willingham said angrily. “I have been persecuted for 12 [...]

A Vietnamese woman weeps over the body of her husband, one of the Vietnamese Army casualties suffered in the war with the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. 1965

WHEN sales assistant Caroline Perez, 23, fell for 71-year-old Cyril Hawkins, no one thought it would last. But three years on, they’re married - and hoping to start a family. Here, Caroline, from East Horsley, Surrey, tells her story…
‘Sitting on a bench over looking the moonlit sea, I snuggled up next to the man I’d [...]