A bad-tempered squirrel drove rescuers nuts when it tried to bite them as they freed it from a manhole cover on a city street. The red squirrel - described as…
Jerusalem has returned centuries-old scrolls after they were removed by an Israeli rescue team after an earthquake-wrecked synagogue was destroyed in Turkey. The ancient scrolls, known as the Book of…
US rescuers have celebrated the successful release of an unprecedented dozen manatees back into the sea in just one day. The Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Partnership (MRP) released the adorable…
Rescuers filmed the moment they tried to separate a tiny baby monkey from its dead mother after she was run over by a car. The sad incident happened on a…
Curious endangered eight-foot-long blue shark is escorted back to the deep after it turned up at a yacht club on the Spanish coast. The footage shows the shark in Valencia…
A woman who called to check on her estranged mum after an earthquake in Italy was horrified to discover that she had already been dead for two months. The women…
An injured lone hiker trapped on an Alpine peak by snow and ice storms needs a "miracle" to survive, say rescuers. The man has been named only as Julian P.,…
The bodies of a female bear and two cubs have been recovered from a 100-foot-deep cave after a fight to the death with a male. Spanish rescuers found the male's…
Baby humpback whale is freed after a seven-hour rescue operation when it got tangled in a discarded fishing net. The images show the trapped baby humpback whale thrashing as it…
An endangered giant tortoise that was found in a city park after apparently getting lost is receiving some well-needed TLC from rescuers at a wildlife centre in Texas. African spurred…