Sea search for pair is called off
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The search for two people last seen on a makeshift raft in the sea near Hastings pier is called off for the night.
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Japan has "temporarily halted" its much-criticized plan for a humpback whale hunt in the seas near Antarctica, said the chief Japanese government spokesman on Friday.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the countryâs fleet, a Japanese official said.
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Wet weather has forced the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy one-day cricket series decider between Australia and New Zealand at the Gabba to be called off.
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The U.S. Coast Guard's aerial search for the daughter of hockey great Bob Gainey was suspended Monday night, three days after she was washed overboard in the Atlantic during a storm while working on a sailing ship bound for the Caribbean.
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South Korea has called off a search for North Korean agents suspected of infiltrating the country. The countryâs military was put on its highest state of alert and a massive manhunt commenced, after several holes were found at a border fence.
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Ships and helicopters search for two fishermen missing after a collision with a Japanese destroyer.
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Family and friends of Kate and Gerry McCann urged Portuguese police on Saturday to eliminate the couple from their inquiries and to return to the hunt for their missing daughter Madeleine.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - Rescuers called off search  and recovery efforts on Thursday at the site of a mudslide that  killed 10 people when it hit a seaside California town and  urged residents to leave in case of another collapse.
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Effort to fertilize oceans to limit warming, and make money, is canceled.
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Japan has cut short its annual whaling expedition, which was dogged by environmental protests, after a ship was badly damaged by fire, officials said Wednesday.
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The Coast Guard planned to call off its search early Thursday for an acclaimed computer scientist whose sailboat has disappeared off Northern California.
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State divers recovered a body from a sunken fishing vessel in frigid waters off Nantucket on Monday, after the Coast Guard halted a search for four crewmen missing for more than two days.
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Rescuers called off their active air search for Steve Fossett on Wednesday, but insisted they had not given up hope and would keep crews on standby to fly to sites where the U.S. adventurer's airplane may have crashed.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With just hours left in the countdown, NASA called off the launch Wednesday of a spacecraft that will hunt for emerging black holes.
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Computing pioneer lost Coastguards in northern California are planning to call off the search for missing Microsoft researcher Jim Gray early on Thursday. He went missing on a sailing trip off San Francisco Bay on Sunday.â¦
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The Coast Guard called off its search Wednesday for five fishermen lost at sea when their scallop boat capsized in cold, turbulent water off Nantucket.