World News by Wild Rose

Journalist Will Murray describes how he and a bystander saved an SUV driver from his vehicle.

Two men plunged into raging floodwaters in Queensland, Australia, to save a driver from a sinking four-wheel-drive on Thursday. The dramatic rescue ended in an emotional embrace.

Australian TV reporter rescues man from sinking car

A third attempt has been made to guide the 9ft 10in (3m) shark back to the open sea.

A fire broke out aboard the KMP Batumandi as the ferry approached Merak Port in western Indonesia on Tuesday

The 28-year-old fell while crossing a hilly path near the pool at Wagamon

The Ukrainian army says it has carried out the world’s first drone evacuation of a wounded soldier from the front line.

Spain’s military is hoisting residents from the rooftops of their flooded homes.

An elderly man was pulled unconscious from a flat after a fire broke out in a residential building in Hong Kong’s Western district on Monday night, with about 60 residents evacuating the premises. Police received a report at 8.57pm that flames had erupted in a flat in Hang Fai Building on Pok Fu Lam Road in Sai Ying Pun. Firefighters deployed a water jet and a breathing apparatus team to tackle the fire, which was extinguished at 9.54pm. A man in his 70s was found unconscious and was rushed to...

A comprehensive health check-up of the five primates, including X-rays and blood tests, was carried out after one of the juvenile orangutans developed fever; No major breakthrough in the probe so far

An international rescue operation for the last 30 captive whales in Canada made headlines. Then five of them died.

A woman was rescued by passersby after being swept along by floodwaters in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district

Laxmikant Mardi, 25, of Tukkanatti village, had climbed the pole halfway when someone noticed him and pulled him down.

The constable with Mantrayalam police found the body of a woman who allegedly ended her life in the Tungabhadra river floating in the waters, carried it on his back for nearly a kilometre through hilly terrain, before reaching the shore

Indonesian authorities and conservation workers have successfully moved eight ⁠orangutans to a safe ⁠location after the endangered ⁠primates’ homes were destroyed by wildfires in the forests of Borneo. The Southeast Asian nation is battling its most intense wildfires in 11 years, mainly on Sumatra and Borneo islands, and the ‌government has warned the blazes could continue until November, aggravated by the El Nino weather pattern. Three mother-child pairs and two adolescent male orangutans were...

The critically endangered apes were rescued from intense wildfires that destroyed their habitat in August and September.

Starving for more than four days without prey, the male tiger is stranded in a stone quarry block surrounded by man-made ponds.

Rescuers in Tanzania's Mara Region pulled three artisanal gold miners alive from a caved-in pit on Friday, while two more miners are still missing. The post Tanzania Rescuers Free 3 Gold Miners After 20 Hours appeared first on The Rio Times.

Seven persons of a group of 70 people who had gone to the beach on a jolly trip were washed away by strong waves; three people were rescued and admitted to hospital

A young orangutan has been rescued from wildfires in Borneo. Named Novita, the three- to four-year-old female was found clinging to a tree in Central Kalimantan on 26 September, with burns to her hands and feet after crossing the flames.

Hong Kong firefighters have rescued a 13-year-old boy who climbed out a window onto the air-conditioning unit to escape a fire that broke out in his flat, while his mother has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect. Police received reports at 7.54pm on Wednesday that a fire had broken out in a flat at Tsui To House, one of the blocks of Tsui Ping (North) Estate in Kwun Tong. Online footage showed the boy, wearing only his underwear, climbing out of a window and onto the condenser unit as...

Rescuers halt operation off the coast after finding no survivors.

Firefighters could not tackle the blaze due to its intensity, but a crew of 23 — all Indian citizens — had been rescued

Four Indonesian seamen who were kidnapped and held hostage by Somali pirates aboard an oil tanker for more than five months arrived back home on Tuesday, an Agence France-Presse reporter saw. The men were among 17 crew rescued a week ago when maritime police from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia stormed the Palau-flagged MT Honour 25 tanker that was hijacked in April. Before the vessel could be recaptured, the pirates had already killed five crew members – three...

The father of one of the 19 young abductees tells the BBC he hasn't eaten in three days out of worry.

Bangkok, Oct. 5 (Jiji Press)--Thai police have taken two Japanese men in their 20s into protective custody in the western province of Kanchanaburi, which borders Myanmar. The Japanese nationals, who are believed to have been forced to join fraud at a base in Myanmar, were rescued Wednesday, according to the police. There may be some other Japanese nationals at the fraud base, informed sourc...