The elephant named Charlie in South Africa’s zoo has been released back to the wild after being in a cage for 40 years. The elephant was captured in 1984 and taken to Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park when he was two years old.

Elephant in South Africa zoo released into the wild after 40 years of captivity

A daring, rapid medical evacuation operation by air, undertaken by the Indian Navy, saved the life of a critically ill child and provided succour to the concerned family.

Indian Navy undertakes daring 900 km night flight amid monsoon to save critically ill two-year-old

After more than five weeks since their plane crashed in a dense jungle, four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia have been miraculously found alive in the southern part of the country.

Miracle: Four Indigenous children rescued from dense Amazon jungle 40 days after plane crash

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In a dramatic rescue, a baby elephant was fished out of a manhole while its mother had to be given CPR. A video of the dramatic rescue is doing the rounds on the internet and people are obsessed, rightfully so.

Watch: Cranes, CPR & more, dramatic video shows rescue operation involving a mother elephant and her calf

Rescuers in Nigeria on Wednesday raced to find survivors, two days after a high-rise building under construction collapsed and trapped scores of people in the commercial capital Lagos, as the death toll rose to 22, an emergency official said.

Nigeria races to find survivors as 22 die in a building collapse

Three trekkers from Maharashtra have died due to heavy snowfall in India's Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh state, while the 10 other trekkers have been rescued.

3 trekkers dead, 10 rescued after heavy snowfall in India's Himachal Pradesh

Rights activists on Sunday accused Italian authorities of blocking migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 from leaving port and resuming its emergency mission in the Mediterranean.

Activists accuse Italy of halting ship rescue mission

Indian Army, in coordination with the Navy and Air Force, has stepped up its relief and rescue operations by deploying a total of 123 rescue teams in 16 districts spread across four rain-battered states - Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Rescue and relief operations beefed up in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala

Russian rescuers have found eight dead construction workers after a fire in a mine operated by potash maker Uralkali, and one more person remains missing, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday citing investigators.

Russian rescuers find eight bodies after fire in Uralkali mine

A migrant group said Friday it had rescued nearly 300 migrants off the coast of Libya over the previous 24 hours. "More than 300 people safe on board the #OpenArms," the Proactiva Open Arms organisation tweeted.

Nearly 300 migrants rescued off Libya: Aid group

All 189 passenger and crew aboard a crashed Indonesian jet were “likely” killed in the accident, Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said Monday, as it announced it had found human remains.

Lion Air plane crash: Body parts found as rescue agency says ‘likely’ all 189 aboard crashed jet dead

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