A starving horse pulled from a water-filled ditch by animal rescuers has started a new lease of life as it recovers from months of malnutrition. The chestnut-coated pony had been…
The sewer embarrassing moment a roly-poly rat is released back into the wild after getting wedged in a manhole cover. The rotund rodent got stuck fast when it tried to…
Straying puss finds himself just one slip away from becoming a pack lunch as he gets stuck up a tree over a zoo enclosure full of hungry wolves. He was…
The body of a Canadian soldier who vanished in an avalanche in Switzerland has been found. Captain Sean Thomas, 30, was found dead after he went missing in an avalanche…
A diver nearly drowned while working on a project to raise a vessel known as the 'Titanic of the Alps' after it was sunk on Lake Constance in 1933 when…
Dogs that nearly drowned in floods in Brazil show the trauma they still experience even after being rescued. Footage of pups pulled from the waters in Rio Grande do Sul…
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Poor juvenile loggerhead sea turtle that was badly mangled and had its jaw smashed by a boat propeller, with vets at a marine wildlife centre now battling…
A young duck that had been swallowed alive by a pelican is quickly rescued by an alert keeper who then speedily separates the greedy pelican from its smaller cousin. The…
Four British yachters who were stranded at sea when they ran aground on a sandbank were plucked to safety as waves threatened to engulf their tiny 10-metre boat. The four,…
A mountaineer plunged 1,000ft to her death after slipping into a rocky ravine in front of her horrified friends. Monica Reginato, 55, from Castelfranco, slipped and fell 300 metres (984…