Tag: Wheelchair

An investigation was launched against Carson Briere, who has been suspended from the athletics department.

The longest-reigning British monarch Queen Elizabeth II is rumoured to be using a wheelchair due to deteriorating health conditions, The News International reported.  According to details, the...

Pakistani student Faaiz Arbab from Lahore has manufactured a wheel-chair that can be controlled by voice and operated through a smartphone application.

LONDON: A motorized wheelchair used by the late British physicist Stephen Hawking sold at auction on Thursday for almost 300,000 pounds ($391,740.00) while a...

LISBON: A Portuguese man spent 43 years in a wheelchair because of a mistaken medical diagnosis, finally re-learning to walk only in his fifties, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: A disabled passenger said Sunday she was forced to crawl on New Delhi airport's tarmac after Air India failed to provide a wheelchair when her plane landed, an allegation the carrier denies.

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani teacher has described how he saved his wife from a deadly stampede in Saudi Arabia by pulling her from her wheelchair as fellow haj pilgrims were trampled to death around them.

NEW YORK: Police on Tuesday were searching for a man in a wheelchair who is suspected of robbing a New York bank and rolling out of the building with $1,200 cash to make a clean getaway.

TOKYO: A Japanese designer is challenging accepted ideals of beauty at Tokyo Fashion Week, with an easy-to-wear collection unveiled on the catwalk by models who are blind, wear prosthetic limbs or use a wheelchair.