A teenage Australian surfer feared lost at sea was rescued after spending the night on an uninhabited island miles offshore, officials and local media said.

A chihuahua is being hailed a four-legged hero after helping rescuers find its owner, who had fallen into a crevice on a Swiss glacier. The man's exact location was unknown but after a half hour search,

Rescuers are searching for 19 people missing in severe flooding in Nepal that swept away a key bridge connecting the country with China.

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An 8-year-old boy plunged down a 20-foot shaft connected to a bunker while hiking with his family on Oahu, Hawaii officials reported. Rescuers received a 911 call about the accident on the Koko Head Trail at 5:24 p.m. Saturday, July 5, the Honolulu Fire Department said in a news release.

ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI — Multiple agencies responded to Lake Michigan on Tuesday, July 8, for a report of an unaccounted person who is believed to have been in the water, police said. The Allegan County Sheriff’s Office responded to Lake Michigan north of Saugatuck for a water emergency Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff’s office said.

The claim circulated as rescuers searched for people missing from Camp Mystic, a Christian girls summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River.

Rescuers made their way through "a treacherously slippery rock scree field" to reach a hiker who'd spent the night on a New Hampshire trail, officials said. The 30-year-old hiker from Danbury, Connecticut,