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Teen Survives Night Stranded With Polar Bears

Canadian youth rescued from Arctic ice floe

Nov 10, 09 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A 17-year-old Inuit youth is in a local hospital with hypothermia after spending over 24 hours stranded on a drifting ice floe in Canada's Hudson Bay with three polar bears. The teen became separated from his uncle as the two walked back toward a settlement after their snowmobile broke down... More »

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Canada • Arctic • polar bear • rescue • Inuit • search and rescue

Capt. Sully Plans Return to Flying

Hero pilot will also become part of US Airways' safety management team

Sep 28, 09 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chesley Sullenberger, who saved the passengers and crew of US Airways Flight 1549 when he executed daring water landing on the Hudson River in January, will soon return to flying. The hero pilot's return to the cockpit is imminent, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles reports. In addition to flying,... More »

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airline industry • US Airways • aviation • rescue • pilot • Hudson River • management • Chesley Sullenberger • Flight 1549 • NBC Local

 900 Pulled From 
 Sinking Filipino 
 Ferry, 60 Missing 

Five dead, 63 missing after fiasco in Philippines

Sep 6, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(AP) - A ferry carrying nearly 1,000 passengers sank in the southern Philippines early this morning, leaving at least five dead and more than 60 missing. The Superferry 9 began to list before dawn about 9 miles off Zamboanga del Norte province, rousing terrified passengers from their sleep and throwing some... More »

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shipwreck • Philippines • rescue • missing boater • navy • ferry

(Newser) - Some 700 people feared dead in Taiwan's mudslides have been found alive and rescued from the disaster zone, the BBC reports. Military helicopters have been evacuating people from rural areas in southern Taiwan, where mudslides caused by Typhoon Morakot engulfed several mountain villages. Hundreds of other people are still missing... More »

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severe weather • Taiwan • typhoon • rescue • mudslide • Typhoon Morakot

 Survivor: Yemenia 
 Crash 'Like Being 
 Electrocuted' 

12-year-old sole survivor tells her story

Jul 5, 09 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - When a Yemenia Airways jet fell out of the tempestuous sky into the sea, it felt "like being electrocuted," the sole survivor tells the Times of London. Bahia Bakari heard "a big sound" before being ejected from her plane, says the 12-year-old, and survived the hours after... More »

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plane crash • rescue • survivors • Yemenia Air • Bahia Bakari

Gown-Clad Bride Saves Strangers From Flames

Newlywed spots house on fire on way home from wedding reception

Jun 1, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - It was an “eventful day” yesterday, a Connecticut woman said afterward: She got married and still had time to save a family from a burning house. On her way home from her wedding reception, Georgette Clemons spotted smoke. Still wearing her wedding gown, she dashed from the car... More »

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Connecticut • wedding • rescue • brides • wedding dresses • fire • Georgette Clemons

 Sea Lion Saved on Highway 


May 21, 09 2:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cops near San Francisco made an unusual rescue today on a local expressway: They saved a wandering sea lion, the Chronicle reports. After a brief chase, they corralled the 30-pound confused critter, probably only about a year old. The sea lion, named Moody in honor of a fallen officer, is... More »

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California • San Francisco • rescue • sea lions

 Yemeni Forces 
 Free Tanker, 
 Nab 11 Pirates 

Three marines wounded in gunfire

Apr 27, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yemeni forces freed a hijacked Yemeni oil tanker and arrested 11 Somali pirates yesterday, the AP reports, with the country's coast guard exchanging gunfire with the pirates and taking control of the vessel Qana. Three marines were wounded, CNN adds. The tanker had been hijacked earlier in the day while... More »

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Yemen • rescue • pirates • hijacking • oil tanker

(AP) - The shipping captain held hostage by Somali pirates will return to the US with his crew tomorrow. Maersk Line said today that Richard Phillips and the crew of the Maersk Alabama are expected to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland late tomorrow, where they will reunite with loved... More »

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Somalia • Navy • kidnapping • piracy • rescue • pirates • hijacking • Maersk Alabama • Richard Phillips • Andrews Air Force Base

 Aussies Can't Save 
 87 Stranded Whales 

But rescuers are ultimately able to save only four

Mar 25, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescue crews saved four long-finned pilot whales after a mass stranding in Western Australia’s Hamelin Bay, but scores of others died, the West Australian reports. Eighty-seven whales and dolphins beached Monday, prompting more than 250 volunteers and 100 conservation workers to spend a near-freezing night on the beach nursing... More »

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Australia • rescue • dolphin • animal rescue groups • stranded • dolphins • whales

 Brits to Stop Saving 
 Stranded Whales 

Marine experts say refloating causes suffering and rarely works

Mar 25, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whales who get stuck on British shores will now get a lethal injection instead of a lift back to the ocean, the Independent reports. The policy is backed by marine experts and animal welfare groups as the more humane option, based on new research showing that refloated whales usually die... More »

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whale • rescue • Britain • marine mammals • whales

 Thai 'Spidey'
Saves Autistic Boy 

Firefighter uses costume to coax boy from ledge

Mar 25, 09 3:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A quick-thinking fireman in Bangkok rescued an autistic boy from a third-story window ledge this week with a little help from a superhero friend, the BBC reports. The firefighter donned a Spider Man costume he keeps handy for school drills and climbed onto the ledge with a glass of juice... More »

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autism • Spider-Man • firefighters • Bangkok • rescue

(Newser) - A man in his late 30s survived a plunge over the Niagara Falls today, the Buffalo News reports. The man jumped into the rapids of the Niagara River, got swept over the 167-foot falls, and somehow stayed afloat in the frigid water below for 40 minutes until being rescued. He... More »

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rescue • river • Niagara Falls

 Aussies Herd 
 Beached Whales 
 Back to Sea 

194 animals beached; dozens returned to water

Mar 2, 09 7:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Rescuers using boats, stretchers, and a jet ski hauled dozens of whales and dolphins back to sea after 200 were beached on an Australian island, the Daily Telegraph reports. Some 59 animals were saved, ABC notes, as rescuers dug trenches and draped cloths over the whales to keep them cool... More »

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Australia • whale • Tasmania • rescue • dolphin

 Scientists Pitch 
 Massive Mirror 
 Sun Shade 
 to Save Earth 

Mastermind convinced $350T project will get off ground in some 20 years

Feb 27, 09 5:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists are proposing a stunning rescue project right out of a science fiction movie to save the earth from global warming: a massive 100,000-square-mile mirrored "sun shade." Trillions of tiny mirrors would be blasted by a cannon into space a million miles above earth to deflect the... More »

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global warming • Earth • deep space • rescue • 2001: A Space Odyssey

(Newser) - The FBI rounded up 48 suspected teen prostitutes and arrested 571 others on a range of prostitution charges this weekend, the AP reports. The nationwide offensive, Operation Cross Country, rescued girls as young as 13 years old. "The goal is to recover kids," one FBI official said. "... More »

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FBI • law enforcement • child abuse • arrest • rescue • child prostitution • sting operations • teenager • pimp

MARKETS

 Dow Plunges 382 Points 

Geithner's rescue plan lacks sufficient detail to reassure investors

Feb 10, 09 3:14 PM CST
(Newser) - Stocks plummeted today as investors found Timothy Geithner’s description of the bank rescue plan too broad to spur a revival in financial stocks, MarketWatch reports. Analysts criticized Geithner’s announcement for failing to sufficiently describe the role of private capital in the rescue. Citigroup and Bank of America both... More »

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Dow Jones • Nasdaq • rescue • financial sector • S&P 500 • financial stocks • Timothy Geithner

 Fishermen Return to Thin Ice  

Warnings averted a major tragedy

Feb 9, 09 2:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Hundreds of ice fisherman were already back on frozen sections of Lake Erie yesterday less than 24 hours after the rescue of 125 fishermen stranded on a drifting ice floe. Some headed to risky areas where currents can create dangerously thin ice, reports the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Experts warned that... More »

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Coast Guard • Lake Erie • rescue • National Weather Service • ice fishing • Catawba Island State Park

(Newser) - Rescue teams saved about 125 fishermen stuck on an ice floe in Lake Erie today, but one died after falling in the water, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Authorities had warned northern Ohio fishermen that high winds with unseasonably warm air could melt ice and send it adrift. Fishermen reached... More »

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Lake Erie • rescue • fishermen

 Horse Saved From Frozen Pond 

Rescuers work in freezing temperatures

Feb 6, 09 6:16 AM CST
(Newser) - A horse who fell through ice into a pond was rescued by 40 firefighters and members of the Northern Kentucky Large Animal Rescue Team, reports the Kentucky Enquirer. Firefighters dragged the horse, named Pencil, onto his side, slid him across plywood boards over the ice to the bank. The horse... More »

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Kentucky • horse • rescue • Northern Kentucky Horse Network • Northern Kentucky Large Animal Rescue Team

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