A man has died after falling from a hot air balloon basket in New York state.

JAPAN: A Japanese railway company is turning to cameras as a way to spot drunken behaviour and keep late-boozing patrons from tumbling onto the tracks, a spokesman said.

A worker who says he was sacked when he tried to help a woman being assaulted in a US store car park has been offered his job back.

Experts are investigating today why a bus chartered for a Canadian hockey team swerved and rammed a parked tractor-trailer so hard that the bus split in half lengthwise, killing four people and injuring 19.