Sharks kill three swimmers in less than a year.
A tiger snake's repeated bites prove fatal. Police arrested about 100 demonstrators Tuesday at a May Day event after some in the crowd threw hammers, pipes and bottles filled with excrement and urine at officers. Before attempting to treat his own potentially fatal illness, the South Pole's only doctor said his practice was limited mainly to treating the common cold. A man was killed Sunday when his parachute caught on the tail of an airplane, sending it into an uncontrollable dive and forcing 10 other people to jump for their lives. An Australian navy task force was confronted by a Chinese warship in the Taiwan Straits, adding to recent diplomatic tension between the two nations, officials said Sunday.