Japanese rescuers completed building a slope on Saturday to reach a truck driver stuck in a sinkhole, officials said, four days after his vehicle was swallowed by the cavity now 40 metres wide.

Rescuers helped an injured hiker and their climbing partner off Black Butte's treacherously icy trail. What makes Mt.

A dog fell down a 200-foot ice waterfall in Lake Tahoe last weekend, triggering a large volunteer-powered rescue that ...

A Russian missile attack struck the centre of the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Friday evening, wounding at least seven people and damaging historic buildings, officials said.

The reptiles, an endangered species, were incapacitated when the water temperature plummeted after a rare winter storm hit ...

In seconds, the wreckage of each aircraft plunged into the icy Potomac River, the victims with it. All perished.

A 70-year-old man snowshoeing in the Sierra was rescued by a California Highway Patrol helicopter after falling more than two ...

The hikers decided to turn around from their attempt to summit a more than 6,000-foot high peak, deputies say.

Retired Palm Beach County EMS Captain Steve Campana and his dog, Mac, help heal the hidden traumas carried by rescuers.

Japanese authorities urge evacuation as a massive sinkhole in Saitama grows, hampering rescue efforts to free an elderly truck driver.

Officials in Yashio city, located north of Tokyo, are trying to rescue a 74-year-old man whose truck was swallowed by a ...

Volunteer rescuers have freed a humpback whale that had become entangled in rope at a Skye salmon farm. The animal was spotted in difficulty at Organic Sea Harvest's Invertote site in the north of the ...