Tourist in second Outback rescue
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A Merseyside man is rescued from the Australian Outback after getting lost in the bush twice in one week.
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BANGKOK : Western tourists who survived giant waves that struck Thailand&#39;s shores at the weekend have been astounded by the generosity of locals grappling with their own massive destruction and loss of life.
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CANBERRA, Australia  - Australians on Sunday commemorated the efforts of a British explorer whose tenacity prevented their country being named New Holland or Terra Australis.
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A ski lift attendant who was buried beneath an avalanche was rescued Monday after a half hour of frantic digging, and experts warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snow slides in Austria's Alps.
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Proving boomerangs really do come back, an Australian town was on Thursday celebrating the return of a boomerang stolen from an outback museum by an American tourist 25 years ago.
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Rescue teams are confident of saving most surviving whales from a pod beached off Tasmania&#39;s east coast - the second mass stranding in Tasmanian waters in 24 hours.
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Move over Rover, let Flipper take over. News from New Zealand suggests man&#39;s best friend is in fact the bottlenose dolphin. It emerged yesterday that four swimmers were saved from a great white shark by a
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An Australian hailed as a hero for allegedly rescuing more than a dozen tsunami victims in Thailand was arrested Monday as he returned home by police who recognized him as a suspected burglar.
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DARWIN, Australia  - An Australian truck driver sentenced to life in prison for the outback murder of British tourist Peter Falconio in 2001 is seeking a second appeal against his conviction, this time in Australia's High Court.
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A 5-year-old girl saved her infant sister from a possible attack by an Australian dingo in a hotel room on an island where the wild dogs killed a boy three years ago.
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More than 100 people were injuredwhen a high-speed passenger train overturned in southern Queensland early Tuesday. The train was traveling from Brisbane, capital of Queensland
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Two weeks after it was hit by Hurricane Charley, Florida is open for business and welcoming visitors. The organisation Visit Florida, which offers advice to holidaymakers
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An Australian has been charged with reckless driving after trying to reverse 500 kms (310 miles) across the outback, local media reported on Friday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - A lone tsunami survivor  has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said on  Saturday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean as nations  pledged to try to stop such a disaster happening again.
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Five people are rescued after eight days adrift in a liferaft off the north Cornwall coast.
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A GIRL saved her baby sister from a dingo on an island where the wild dogs killed a boy three years ago. Five-year-old Georgia Corke sprang to the rescue of three-month-old Scarlett when a dingo got into her
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More than 40 miners who were trapped underground Wednesday by a fire in an Australian gold mine have been rescued, local media reported.