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Residents in Western Australia’s north-west are bracing for heavy rain and destructive winds as the state’s first cyclone of the season approaches. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is predicting a tropical low, currently tracking parallel to the Kimberley coast, will intensify into a cyclone late tonight or early Friday before heading for the east Pilbara …

IZMIR, TURKEY (AP) — Rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building Tuesday, four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece and as hopes of reaching survivors began to fade. Wrapped in a thermal blanket, the girl was taken into …

media captionHow to rescue a stranded whale A total of 108 surviving pilot whales have been released back into the sea after a mass stranding in Australia, marine experts say. They believe Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania’s west coast is now clear of live whales. But about 350 whales died in what is Australia’s worst stranding …

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Rescuers found a man lost near Mount Evans with the help of cell phone technology. It helped provide better, accurate information about where the hiker exactly was on the mountain. (credit: CBS) On Thursday, officials reported the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center received an alert about the overdue hiker in …

More than two dozen rescue workers are battling to save two cavers trapped in a cavern in the Tatra mountains in Poland after a narrow tunnel flooded with water. A representative of the rescue service said on Sunday it had not yet been possible to establish contact with the two cavers and that concern was …

Yesenia D’Alessandro added a global positioning system, or GPS, recording program to her mobile phone before entering a hard-to-reach Hawaiian forest. She was joining more than 100 volunteers looking for a missing person. D’Alessandro flew all the way from the state of Maryland to join the rescue efforts. The volunteers searched through dense plant life, …