A team of "selfless" school pupils relinquished their chances of finishing the Ten Tors challenge to rescue a girl from a swollen river and guide doze...
A Welsh mountain rescue team launched a dramatic rescue bid to save a mother and son stranded next to treacherous 1,000ft vertical cliff on Snowdon, i...
A heroic dock master has spoken of how he dived into freezing cold waters to rescue a six-month old baby boy after his buggy was blown in by strong wi...
A woman and her two-year-old son were rescued from the River Thames, emergency crews said. The boy had fallen through open railings into the water ...
This is the moment a rescue helicopter plunged into the sea in front of horrified beachgoers, as it attempted to rescue a man caught in a dangerous cu...
The attempted rescue of a man who fell into an icy lake in California turned into chaos and terror on Christmas Day as a handful of helpers ended up f...
Turkish divers were scrambled to rescue a blow-up sex doll after reports of a woman’s body floating offshore this weekend. According to Millyet ...
Coastguards have reminded seafarers about the importance of wearing a lifejacket after five people had to be rescued from a sinking speedboat. An R...
Witnesses have described the moment an explosion in Oldham levelled three terraced houses, leaving a child dead and a man with severe burns. Georgi...
A woman had to be rescued from her car after she became stuck in floodwater thorough following directions on her satnav. The driver, from Mansfield...
Spain's banks are to receive a bail out of up to 100 bn euros of European funds. However the country has avoided the imposition of tough austerity mea...
A man who drowned while trying to rescue a young girl as she was being swept out to sea has been named by police. Bulgarian national Plamen Petkov,...
A man has died trying to rescue two children from the sea on the Sussex coastline. The 25-year-old drowned after jumping in to save two children wh...
Two holidaymakers were taken to hospital with hypothermia after being cut off by the tide on a Cornish beach. They were part of a group of three wo...
Unregistered passengers might have been aboard the stricken cruise liner that capsized off a Tuscan island, raising the possibility that the number of...
Divers searching the wreck of the stricken Costa Concordia have discovered another body, bringing the total dead to 13. According to the Civil Pro...
At least 12 people are now confirmed to have died after a cruise liner crashed off the Tuscan coast last week. Rescue workers searching the 114,500...
More than 100 passengers of the stricken cruise liner that crashed off the Tuscan coast last week are to sue the owners of the ship. The 114,500 to...
The captain who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast attempted to hide the severity of the situation from his crew and company bosses aft...
Italians are making emotional appeals for rescuers to continue searching for survivors of the Costa Concordia tragedy, one week since the cruise ship ...
A heroic purser survived for two days alone on the Costa Concordia after falling through a floor and breaking his leg while rescuing passengers. Ma...
Firemen, RSPCA workers and bin operators were left red-faced after a 12-hour operation to save a ‘pregnant cat’ from a recycling bin, only to find...
A father who woke up paralysed due to a crippling spine condition says he has Facebook to thank after he appealed to his friends to rescue him. Pet...
