Irish children swept out to sea
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A major rescue operation is launched after 110 children are swept into the Irish Sea, but all are reported rescued.
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A pair of 2-year-olds who wandered out of a vacation home and into the Australian wilderness were found Monday &#151; scratched and dirty but unhurt &#151; after spending more than 24 hours outdoors.
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A river boat carrying children on a school trip capsized in southern India on Tuesday, and at least 18 children and four teachers drowned, a local official said. Sixteen children were missing as night fell.
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By JOHN FALLON  A EUR4.5MILLION rescue plan was put in place yesterday to help islanders whose homes were about to fall into the sea.   Chunks of land on Inishbofin off the Co Galway coast fell into the sea in recent storms.
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As the sun is going down on a Saturday in March, three youngsters &#150; Jack Lynch, 12, of Weymouth, Joseph Kennedy, 12, of Milton, and Jack Young, 10, of Walpole &#150; kick a Gaelic football around an empty playing field in Canton. In warm-up jackets zipped to their chins, they cut and fake, as if to shake invisible defenders. One ...
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Children are having the chance to play outdoors taken away from them, a group of experts warns.
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As dawn breaks over Sri Lanka's coast, dozens of parents come to the beach where huge waves seized their children a week ago. "They believe their kids are alive and the sea will return them &#151; one day," UNICEF chief Carol Bellamy said on Sunday, after touring this island country's tsunami-devastated shore.
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Five sailors were rescued yesterday after surviving for seven days adrift in a life raft in storm-tossed seas. The group, including two Britons, had run out of supplies of food and water.
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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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A 12-year-old girl is rescued after being swept out to sea on a dinghy off the coast of Donegal.
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Passengers and crew are being airlifted from a ferry in the Irish Sea after sailing into bad weather.
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Over 100 children found packed in a minibus heading for an Islamic school are returned to their families.
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A group of schoolchildren is rescued after being stranded in the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland.
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Trapped residents in Boscastle are lifted to safety from the roof of their flooded home. Three people were missing yesterday after a flash flood hit a coastal tourist area in south-west England, sweeping dozens of cars into the sea and leaving hundreds ...
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Passengers and non-essential crew were  airlifted off a ferry that had been at risk of capsizing in the  Irish Sea during a storm on Thursday and later ran aground,  coastguards said.
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At the village of St Anne la Palud in western Brittany, I followed the Celtic saints as they went down to the sea at the annual religious fete they call the "grand pardon". A mission to find out what remained ...
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British and Irish rescue teams were scrambled to airlift 23 people off a ferry in the Irish Sea on Thursday night after the ship ran into difficulties in bad weather, officials said.