A man died after falling from a height when a bannister collapsed at an apartment block in Lanzarote, a coroner's court has ...

LONDON -- Roger Bannister, who as a lanky medical student at Oxford in 1954 electrified the sports world and lifted postwar England's spirits when he became the first athlete to run a mile in under 4 ...

Is it fair to hold women athletes to men’s standards? For a long time, the idea of any human running a mile faster than 4 ...

“It was as if Mount Everest had been relocated to Oxford – and we could watch it being climbed,” recalls the historian Peter Whitfield, who was only six in 1954 when, exactly a year after Edmund ...

Reporting from LONDON — Roger Bannister, knight of the realm, distinguished neurologist and medical researcher, college president, noted author, sometime TV commentator and, oh yes, the first man to ...

Sir Roger Bannister, the first athlete to run a sub-four minute mile, has died aged 88 in Oxford, his family have said. A statement released on behalf of Sir Roger's family said: "Sir Roger Bannister, ...

Roger Bannister ran history’s first sub-four-minute mile on May 6, 1954, on the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, England. My own personal history began on the same day at Sisters of Charity Hospital in ...

Stifel's chief market strategist Barry Bannister said on Monday that the S&P 500 is facing additional downside to the tune of ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A man who has spent three decades behind bars for a murder he says he didn't commit is now getting one more shot to prove he didn't do it. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey has been ...

LONDON --Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88. Bannister's family said in a statement that he died peacefully on Saturday in Oxford, the ...