Two missing Russian canoeists rescued in China
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Rescue teams on Friday found two members of a missing Russian canoeing expedition who had survived for nearly three weeks without food in remote gorges in western China.
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Russia detains Japanese fishing boat    MOSCOW, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Russia detained a Japanese fishing boat near its far-east Kamchatka region on Friday, accusing it of illegal operations, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
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Dozens of ships remain stranded on Russia's key waterway, following an accident several days ago.
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Five people from a missing Irish yacht have been rescued off southwest England after spending eight days in a life raft, the British coastguard revealed.
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BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - A Russian-US crew lifted off on a two-day journey to the international space station, where their first priority will be to fix a broken generator.
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FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Crews searched a popular Interior Alaska lake by helicopter and boat Wednesday for two canoeists, a day after finding the body of a woman who had been with them.
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Beijing, Sept 6 (VNA) - Up to 55 people were killed and 52 others were reported missing in floods and landslides in China&#39;s Sichuan province and Chongqing city in the past three days, local media said on Monday.
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Five thousand of the world's rarest animals were found by fishermen in a known smuggling area adrift in an abandoned boat near China's coast.
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Floods unleashed by torrential rain have killed at least 118 people and left 86 missing in southwest China. Authorities yesterday called in thousands of army and navy personnel to help after five days of continual
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Russia released a detained Japanese fishing boat captain Thursday because of a chronic medical problem, a week after his boat and three others were seized in waters claimed by both countries, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.
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Twenty-eight Chinese sailors are missing after their ship sank in rough seas off the northern Philippines, the coastguard here said Monday.
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A  search resumes for a 13-year-old boy  missing after a canoeing accident which killed his father.
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A pleasure boat which struck an object on the River Thames is saved from sinking by emergency crews.
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China has been going in for various substantial efforts to rescue the two engineers, who were kidnapped in Pakistan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhang Qiyue tolda regular press conference here Tuesday.
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Fishing boat wrecked at sea rescued with crew of 13 safe and sound    BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A fishing boat from south China's Hainan province was damaged when it collided during the night with a cargo ship in the Qiongzhou Straits of the South China Sea.
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Five people are rescued off the north Cornwall coast after spending eight days adrift in a life raft.
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By CHARLES HUTZLER  BEIJING - An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.