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20 dead as avalanches cause havoc across Europe

Deadly avalanches claimed the lives of 20 people across Europe at the weekend, emergency officials said.

His life cut short, young adventurer still inspires

Rob Gauntlett's life was cut short at the age of 21 during a mountain expedition in France last weekend, but the young Briton is being remembered as a legend by his colleagues and friends.

Youngest Briton to scale Everest killed

Rob Gauntlett, the youngest Briton to summit Mount Everest, died in a climbing accident along with another mountaineer in the French Alps, the British Foreign Office confirmed Sunday. Both were 21.

Time.com: 8 Missing in Mont Blanc Avalanche

An avalanche swept down a major summit in the Mont Blanc range before dawn Sunday, leaving eight climbers missing

Six children dead after French bus crash

A regional train in southeastern France crashed into a school bus killing six children in the Haute-Savoie department Monday morning, said regional authorities in Annecy.

Going downhill fast in the Alps

A ski trip to the French Alps: The mere thought conjures up dreamy images of pristine snowy slopes, charming wooden chalets and celebrities in chunky knitwear feeding each other lumps of hot cheese.

7 teens die in French stables fire

Seven teenagers are dead, and two adults are missing, after a fire at an equestrian center in the French Alps, according to a fire service spokesman.

Desperate search for rail bombs

Thousands of police and rail workers have combed the French railway network in a fruitless search for bombs as anger mounted over the delay in publicizing an extortion plot.

Fortune: Selling France to the French

They've been challenged in wine making by Californians, overtaken in lingerie by the Chinese, edged out by Iraq in military failure. Now the French risk losing a monopoly even closer to home: build...

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