You've heard of Cirque du Soleil's mesmerizing acrobatic feats: their signature hand-to-hand acrobatics, soaring trapeze displays, and performances interwoven with jumping, spinning, and flipping.

In a horrifying moment that stunned a packed circus in Germany, a 27-year-old Spanish acrobat plunged about 16 feet from a trapeze, dying instantly as 100 spectators – including children – watched her ...

Traveling the world, seeing big cities and small, was something Andrea Ayala-Raffo had always enjoyed — even if those visits were interspersed with a few daring acrobatics. But hanging from her hair ...