Helicopter Skiing

Military helicopters, jet skis and rubber boats were deployed to rescue people stranded by "catastrophic" floods along Australia's populous east coast Tuesday, with thousands of homes damaged.

For three days, Sushma Rana waited at a makeshift dirt helipad in the Himalayas to return to her village and look for her missing brother-in-law.

Investigators are focusing on the retired racer's speed when he fell and slammed his head on a rock on a small off-piste section of the Meribel ski resort, prompting his evacuation by helicopter to the Alpine city of Grenoble.

Michael Schumacher has been a coma since Sunday, when he was helicoptered to hospital after slamming his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the upmarket resort of Meribel with his son.

Mexican water-skier Fernando Reina Iglesias has smashed the barefoot water skiing world record with the help of a helicopter. He achieved the feat after two attempts in Acapulco on Monday. "We reached a speed of 153 miles (246 kilometres) per hour in our second attempt. We had to abort our first attempt because the helicopter was going up and ...

Military helicopters, jet skis and rubber boats were deployed to rescue people stranded by "catastrophic" floods along Australia's populous east coast Tuesday, with thousands of homes damaged.

For three days, Sushma Rana waited at a makeshift dirt helipad in the Himalayas to return to her village and look for her missing brother-in-law.

Investigators are focusing on the retired racer's speed when he fell and slammed his head on a rock on a small off-piste section of the Meribel ski resort, prompting his evacuation by helicopter to the Alpine city of Grenoble.

Michael Schumacher has been a coma since Sunday, when he was helicoptered to hospital after slamming his head on a rock while skiing off-piste in the upmarket resort of Meribel with his son.

Mexican water-skier Fernando Reina Iglesias has smashed the barefoot water skiing world record with the help of a helicopter. He achieved the feat after two attempts in Acapulco on Monday. "We reached a speed of 153 miles (246 kilometres) per hour in our second attempt. We had to abort our first attempt because the helicopter was going up and ...