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Many people are feared trapped after a multi-storey building collapsed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
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 Ukrainian army says it has carried out the world’s first drone evacuation of a wounded soldier from the front line.
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
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.
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.