Worries mounted Thursday for a 35-year-old Japanese climber who sent an SOS message after getting trapped in bad weather on the Mont Blanc mountain in France. The man posted a message on social media on Wednesday saying he was coming down from the 4,810-meter (15,780-feet) ...
Two sisters who thought a dog was making noises near their neighbor's bushes discovered something shocking: a filthy 8-month-old baby girl who survived three nights outside in a white plastic bag. "Her legs were just dangling in the bag. Her head was in the bag. ...
Doctors Without Borders has refused to sign onto a new code of conduct drafted by Italy's Interior Ministry for nongovernmental organizations rescuing migrants at sea. The government drafted the code after allegations emerged that some NGOs were cooperating with migrant traffickers. Organizations were convened Monday ...
A helicopter rescued hikers clinging to tree branches and perched on boulders as fast-moving floodwaters tore through a normally quiet creek in Arizona, where unpredictable summer storms rapidly wash churning torrents into canyons and overwhelm those looking to take advantage of cooler weather. Seventeen hikers ...
A Taiwanese trekker who went missing over six weeks ago in the Himalayas of Nepal was rescued on Wednesday, but his Taiwanese girlfriend who was with him died earlier this week, a Nepalese mountaineering official said. The 21-year-old man, identified as Liang Sheng-yue, told rescuers ...
Nagano is seeking the cooperation of other prefectures to deal with emergencies in the mountains after its only experienced firefighting-capable helicopter pilot was killed in a crash Sunday during a training exercise. Masaji Iwata, 56, was one of nine members of a rescue crew killed ...
Hikers beware, Saitama might become the first prefecture in the nation to charge for helicopter mountain rescues, according to a bill submitted to the assembly.
Japan Coast Guard's elite Special Rescue Team completes 5,000th mission
Spain's maritime rescue service says it has rescued 44 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea crammed into two small boats. The rescue service says it collected 25 migrants before dawn Sunday from one boat, 19 others hours later from a second craft. No casualties ...
antiago A small plane with two sick U.S. workers arrived safely in Chile late Wednesday after leaving Antarctica in a daring rescue mission from a remote South Pole research station, officials said. After making a stop for a few hours at a British station on the ...
A pregnant woman was rescued Thursday after being trapped for six days in a collapsed apartment building in the Kenyan capital, the second survivor found this week in the rubble of the seven-story structure that fell amid heavy rains and killed 36 people. Three ...
The men rescued in this tale of three castaways were not named Tom Hanks, or Gilligan, or Robinson Crusoe. Though they might as well have been. In a scene straight from Hollywood, or a New Yorker cartoon, a U.S. Navy plane spotted the word "help" ...
