Alex Osborne BBC News, South West Harding-Lee Media, Wildwood Trust Malenky and Nanuq arrived at Wildwood Trust’s park after travelling from their previous home in Belgium Two brown bear cubs thought to be war refugees have travelled hundreds of miles across borders to reach a forever home in a Devon zoo. The two-year-old siblings, Malenky...
A rescue team has filmed the moment they found an elderly woman stranded in her flooded home in Taree. The Australian prime minister, Antony Albanese has described the floods affecting New South Wales as horrific. Tens of thousands of people remain cut off after floods engulfed parts of the Taree region which is a few...
Five Venezuelan political figures holed up at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas to avoid arrest have been brought to the US after a “successful rescue” mission, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. “The US welcomes the successful rescue of all hostages held by the Maduro regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas,” Rubio wrote in...
French police have rescued the father of a cryptocurrency millionaire who had been kidnapped and held for ransom in a Paris suburb. The unnamed man was attacked in broad daylight in central Paris on Thursday. He was bundled into a delivery van by four men wearing balaclavas, police sources told Le Figaro newspaper. French media...
An elderly dog has been rescued from a Devon gorge after breaking its leg, a local rescue team said. Dartmoor Search and Rescue Ashburton said the dog, called Cocoa, was located in a remote part of the Dart Gorge on Tuesday. Twenty team members responded to the incident at about 15:40 BST and said the...
A 27-year-old university student who climbed Mount Fuji outside of its official climbing season was rescued twice in four days, after he returned to look for his mobile phone. The Chinese student, who lives in Japan, was first rescued by helicopter on Tuesday while on the Fujinomiya trail, which sits about 3,000m (9,800ft) above sea...
A miniature dachshund has been found alive and well on Kangaroo Island off the coast of Australia, more than 500 days after she first went missing. Kangala Wildlife Rescue had been working “around the clock” to find the dog, Valerie, since she was last spotted by her owners on a November 2023 camping trip. Georgia...
An American pastor who was kidnapped by armed men during a church service in South Africa last week has been rescued following a “high-intensity shoot-out” that left three people dead, authorities say. Josh Sullivan was found unharmed in the township in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday evening – the area where the 45-year-old...
A paraglider has been rescued after his wing got stuck in a tree. Police officers from Ottery St Mary and Exmouth responded to the incident after an experienced paraglider was caught by a gust of wind. In a post on Facebook, police confirmed that the man, who had taken off from White Cross on East...
Kira Butters Sabra has moved to Dartmoor Zoo from Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent A female serval cat is the latest arrival at Dartmoor Zoo and is joining a male which was rescued. Sabra has just moved to the zoo from Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent as a mate for Churchill,...