James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

A park ranger drowned while trying to help a stroppy British tourist collect his phone from a cave in Thailand. Paisan Wanphet, 43, plunged into the cold waters to retrieve the gadget at the ...

Paisan Wanphet, 43, plunged into the cold waters to retrieve the gadget when it slipped from the tourist's hand as they ...

“He just could not risk asking her to lift her arms, that she was clearly death gripping the cliff with, in order to place a rescue strap on,” the aviation unit wrote. The rescuer is then ...

He just could not risk asking her to lift her arms, that she was clearly death gripping the cliff with, in order to place a rescue strap on.” But even the new plan was difficult to execute.

On Tuesday night, Mobile Fire-Rescue honored Marcine Crawford Jr. during ... “And so this recent death of Marcine hits everybody hard because we’re a family,” he continued. “ ...

Harrowing video shows rescue crews saving a stranded hiker “death gripping” a cliff in a “precarious” spot on a Southern California trail over the weekend. Riverside County Sheriff’s ...

In a post on social media, the department said Rescue 9 was called to the Whitewater ... Her legs and arms were shaking as she death-gripped the rocks. RCSO said the woman was exhausted from ...

The hiker held her position for over an hour, rescuers said. Screengrab from Riverside County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit's Instagram video A hiker found herself in a precarious situation ...

Emily Cave Boit, posted an emotional note on her Instagram this week which marked five years of Colby’s untimely death. She shared a throwback picture from their wedding accompanied by a long ...