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French wingsuit flyers recently completed an unbelievable stunt following a B.A.S.E. jump from the top of the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland. Fred Fugen and Vince Reffet, known as the Soul Flyers, caught up with and flew into a plane in mid-air. As part of their project A Door in the Sky, which they had spent several months training for by completing more than 100 test flights in Empuriabrava in Spain, the duo B.A.S.E jumped from the top of the Jungfrau, one of Europe’s highest mountains, and flew into a Pilatus Porter light aircraft in mid-air. Now that's a different way...

Many times in my almost 69 years on earth I have stood in awe of various athletic milestones. This event is of such import as to make all else shrivel in insignificance!This should be an olympic event!!Ladies and gentlemen, this is great stuff!

"Today, while driving during a snowstorm, I thought about a dangerous thing we used to do as kids. We called it "skitching". When it was very snowy out, we would wait for a car to drive by and grab the bumper and let the car pull us through the snow. This was without a sled or anything, just our bodies. You might start out on your feet but would usually end up laying down, holding onto the bumper for dear life. The one who held on longest "won". I don't think this is possible today, because cars don't have the...

Visitors to the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas no longer need an elevator to get down from Sin City's highest building. A new ride is giving daredevils a cable, a platform and a chance to jump to a blue and black target 829 feet below. SkyJump Las Vegas has opened as the world's highest commercial decelerator descent.

Renaldo Clarke, one of two men who scaled the Midtown headquarters of The New York Times on June 5, pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of reckless endangerment in the second degree. Alicia Maxey Greene, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which prosecuted the case, said that Mr. Clarke would be sentenced to one day of community service, under a plea agreement, and that the charge would be dismissed if he stays out of trouble. Mr. Clarke, 32, is due back in court on Feb. 10, Ms. Greene said. Mr. Clarke climbed the facade of the 52-story...

THE Red Arrows have been banned from performing at the 2012 London Olympics as they are too BRITISH. Barmy organisers claim the popular RAF display team’s military background “might offend other nations”. The decision has left pilots, who were set to perform their best-ever display at the opening ceremony, in a state of outrage. One said yesterday: “We have been simply blown away by this decision. “For years we have talked about performing a display at the Olympic Games and how magnificent it would be. “It never crossed our mind we would be banned from the event.” The Arrows, officially...