Workers at a building site in Quebec posed next to a centuries-old cannonball without realising it was full of live gunpowder which would explode on impact. The weapon, believed to have been fired by ...
It is fear, primarily, that draws crowds to watch daredevils risk life and limb – the chest-tightening sense that a death-defying act could go wrong. It was a thrill that quickly evaporated in a ...