A British diver involved with the rescue of a Thai youth soccer team this summer sued Elon Musk on a defamation claim Monday over the Tesla Motors CEO’s accusations on social media that the diver is a pedophile.
Read moreThe European Commission said Monday that it is contact with a number of member states to identify a country willing to take 141 migrants picked up by a rescue ship, after the French groups operating the ship appealed for a safe port and Italy said Britain should take responsibility.
Read moreAuthorities say they’ve arrested three women believed to be the mothers of 11 children found living in filth in a makeshift compound in rural northern New Mexico.
Read moreThe young soccer teammates and their coach who were rescued after being trapped in a cave in northern Thailand were ordained Wednesday at a Buddhist temple, a merit-making activity to show thanks for their rescue.
Read moreThe fire came suddenly, and the group of friends ran. When they reached the beach and there was nowhere more to run, they swam into the ocean, choking and blinded by the smoke and pulled by the strong current.
Read moreThe Thai and foreign rescuers of the youth soccer team trapped in a cave for 18 days began heading home Thursday, as doctors said the boys they saved have so far not shown any significant ill effects from their ordeal.
Read moreAll 12 boys and their soccer coach have been rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, the Thai navy SEALs said Tuesday, ending an 18-day ordeal that riveted people around the world.
Read moreAn ambulance with flashing lights on Monday left the site of a flooded cave in northern Thailand where a youth soccer team has been trapped for two weeks, just hours after the second phase of a rescue operation was launched.
Read moreRescuers were searching for dozens still missing in southwestern Japan on Monday after heavy rains that left shocked residents returning to muddy homes unsure where to start the recovery and cleanup due to the extent of damage from flooding and mudslides.
Read moreWith more rain coming, Thai rescuers are racing to pump out water from a flooded cave before they can extract 12 boys and their soccer coach with minimum risk, officials said Thursday.
Read moreA Thai provincial governor says all 12 boys and their soccer coach have been found alive in the cave where they went missing over a week ago in northern Thailand.
Read moreMaltese prosecutors have asked a magistrate to order the confiscation of a migrant rescue ship run by a German aid group.
Read moreRescue divers on Monday were making progress through a key passageway inside the flooded mountain cave in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been missing for more than a week.
Read moreRescuers punched a hole into the side of a mountain on Thursday in a desperate attempt to drain rising water from a flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been missing for five days.
Read moreA 2-year-old English mastiff led astray by an escape-prone hound dog is happy to be home, but still stinks after being found stranded in muck at a wastewater treatment plant in Colorado.
Read moreA burned mountain lion cub rescued from the largest recorded California wildfire will not be released into the wild and will instead live out its life at a wildlife-rescue center, state officials said Thursday.
Read moreA search-and-rescue operation for four young men who went missing last week in Pennsylvania became a homicide investigation Wednesday night when cadaver dogs led police and FBI to a 12-foot-deep common grave.
Read moreAn overheated, seriously dehydrated hiker was in distress and help was on the way until rescuers ran into two men armed with rifles.
Read moreWhen the charter boat M/V Quest 1 sank in the Indian Ocean in the predawn hours two years ago, eight top surfers were left to drift for hours before rescue boats plucked them from their crowded life raft. Now they have sued the Rip Curl surf clothing company for sending them to sea in a dangerous boat with an incompetent crew.
Read moreMontana is having one of its coldest winters in decades, but for 12 refugee families from Syria, Eritrea, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Treasure State couldn’t be warmer.
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