KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Two insurgents attacked a compound housing the International Committee of the Red Cross in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing an Afghan guard before security forces rescued seven foreigners. It was a striking escalati... [Full Article]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A senior Afghan official said security forces rescued seven foreigners working for the International Red Cross on Wednesday after a two-hour-long gun battle with insurgents at a guest house in the eastern city of Jalalabad. ... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Bogged down by a stagnating economy and sinking poll ratings, British Prime Minister David Cameron ventured into a new swamp when he waded waist-deep into mud to rescue a drowning sheep. Cameron was on his way back from visiting a ... [Full Article]
A Boston police officer is being hailed a hero after he jumped into the frigid cold water to rescue a drowning woman. Cell phone video showed police officer Edward Norton plunging into Fort Point channel Friday afternoon during a torrential downpour ... [Full Article]
Bangladesh authorities said Friday they had rescued at least 60 fishermen abducted last week by pirates in the Bay of Bengal, as naval and air forces crack down on criminal activity at sea. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Australia rescued more than 200 asylum-seekers from a boat off Indonesia, officials said Friday, amid reports navy ships are literally cracking under the strain of responding to a flood of boatpeople. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Rescuers pulled four miners out of a flooded coal mine in the central province of Hunan on Sunday, more than three days after an accident trapped them underground, state media said. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Two Australian navy patrol boats rescued 162 people from an asylum seeker boat in trouble in Indonesian waters and were taking them Thursday to an immigration detention center on a remote Australian island territory. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
It was a risky, but successful operation: British and other NATO forces stormed a cave tucked in the mountains before dawn Saturday and rescued two foreign female aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues being held hostage by Taliban-linked milita... [Full Article]
NATO forces swooped in by helicopter before dawn Saturday to rescue two female foreign aid workers and their two Afghan colleagues who were held by militants for nearly two weeks in a cave in northern Afghanistan. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
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