A boat capsized in Congo’s northwest killing at least 27 people, and more than 70 others were missing, a senior government official said Saturday as rescuers searched frantically for survivors. The locally made boat capsized late Friday in the city of Mbandaka
A search and rescue operation was underway Monday after a dinghy carrying migrants sank overnight off the coast of the small eastern Greek island of Symi, leaving at least three people dead, the coast guard said. Eight people were rescued, with two
An American man broke this year’s Guinness World Record for the longest journey by pumpkin boat. That’s right, pumpkin. Steve Kueny, from Lebanon, Missouri, spent almost 11 hours out on the Missouri River in his 1,208-pound pumpkin boat called Huckle Berry. After
A stranded man was spotted creating an ingenious way to save himself as torrential rain became so heavy it flooded everything around him. Alinor Antunes Magalhães of Canoas, in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, Brazil, was snapped riding a bathtub through
Three Filipino fishermen died in the disputed South China Sea after their boat was accidentally hit by a passing commercial vessel, the Philippine coast guard said Wednesday. The fishermen’s boat, F/B Dearyn, was moored in a fishing area in the high seas
A tiny boat has arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands carrying 280 migrants – believed to be the largest ever to arrive at the archipelago in one go. The sub-Saharan migrants arrived on the remote island of El Hierro, almost 400km (238 miles)
Suella Braverman’s Rwanda plan will leave 35,000 small boat migrants “stuck in limbo” every year if it is not enacted, a study has suggested. Analysis of Home Office data by the Refugee Council has found that, even if the policy was given
A breaching whale Saturday capsized a nearly 15-foot boat off the coast of Australia, leaving one man dead and another in the hospital, officials said. “At 6 this morning, police responded to reports of two people in the water,” New South Wales
A man has died and another was taken to hospital after a boat believed to have been struck by a whale capsized. The deadly incident happened on Friday evening in the waters off Cape Banks – which is part of Botany Bay
A Libyan coast guard boat rammed into a dingy carrying some 50 migrants just off Libya’s coast on Friday, partially sinking the vessel. Many of those onboard were thrown into the Mediterranean Sea and had to swim to another Libyan ship nearby