A tourist boat capsized in a storm on Italy's Lago Maggiore in the northern Lombardy region on Sunday, with at least one person confirmed dead, Italian media reported.
Marni Zavaleta's cat Pushca fell down a drain four days ago and was unable to be saved by rescue crews so two women took matters into their own hands in the Blue Mountains.
A woman missing for over a week in the Queensland bush has returned to safety after she roared into the search command post on the back of an ATV this morning.
Guests at a gender reveal party for an expectant couple at a Queensland beach risked their lives to try and save a woman who drowned after trying to help her daughter.
A 17-year-old is recovering from spending 20 hours stranded on a stand-up paddle board after being swept more than 40 kilometres off the Portuguese coast.
A man and woman had to be rescued by staff from a cruise ship after they got into trouble while boating off Wilsons Promontory in Gippsland in south-east Victoria.
Fire crews respond to emergencies every day to help put out fires and save lives. Last week, crews responded to an emergency that was surprising to everyone.
A 68-year-old Melbourne fisherman who spent seven hours struggling to keep his head above water after falling overboard has said he thought he was going to die.
Three men had to be rescued from a yacht in Victoria in the middle of the night after it was overpowered by wild weather and crashed into a container ship.
The brothers, aged in their 20s, had been out fishing near the northern tip of K'gari (Fraser Island) when a rogue wave rolled their boat and cast them into the ocean on Saturday.
The captain of the Thai boys' football team that was trapped in a cave for two weeks in 2018 has died in England, where he was attending a sports academy.
The natural disaster made up of 180 different fires killed 75 people, destroyed more than 3000 homes and scorched around 230,000 hectares in Victoria and South Australia.
Rescuers have pulled several people alive from the remains of buildings, some who survived more than 100 hours after the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
In a ray of hope for rescue workers amid an increasingly grim recovery mission, a two-year-old boy has been pulled alive from the rubble in Turkey 79 hours after a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
A man wanted by police in Oregon in a bizarre incident at a house featured in The Goonies was the subject of a daring coast guard rescue when he was tossed from a stolen boat as it capsised, authorities said.
As a family searched for their missing son who was swept out into the big blue, angry ocean, they spotted something in the distance that gave them pause.
Brendan Paterson first thought he saw an upside down turtle when he was taking a ride on Lake Eildon at Bonnie Doon, about 190km north-east of Melbourne, on Sunday.