Fourteen people have been rescued from a helicopter that ditched in the North Sea.

Originally posted here:
VIDEO: Rescue after helicopter ditches into sea

TEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday welcomed the U.S. Navy’s rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held captive by pirates, just days after it had warned all U.S. ships to leave the region. U.S. officials announced Friday that the fishermen had been rescued by a Navy destroyer the day before, more than 40 days after their boat was commandeered by suspected Somali pirates in the northern Arabian Sea. Read full article > >

See original here:
Iran welcomes U.S. Navy rescue operation

Eleven crocodiles and an alligator have been rescued after police raided the house of a fraud suspect in Belgium.

Read more from the original source:
VIDEO: Reptiles rescued from house in Belgium

More than 60 horses and ponies have been rescued and nine found dead at a farm in Antrim.

The rest is here:
Horses kept in squalid conditions

Nine people have been rescued from a block of flats in Erith, south east London

View post:
Nine rescued from flats blaze

A 47-year-old woman has been rescued from a house fire in the Derrybeg area of Newry, after her daughter raised the alarm.

Read this article:
Woman rescued from fire in Newry

Two woman have been rescued after a fire broke out in a block of maisonette flats in Newtownabbey.

More here:
Two women rescued from flat fire

Six people have been rescued from the 16th floor of an apartment block in Belfast after a fire broke out.

Continued here:
Six people rescued from flat fire

More than 140 children have been rescued after being forced to work in markets in Gabon, says international police agency Interpol.

See the original post:
Trafficked Gabon children rescued

A lonely coyote, crouched on a slab of ice has been rescued from the icy waters of Lake Michigan in the US.

See the rest here:
Coyote rescued from ice float

A horse has been rescued after falling down a mine and becoming lodged in a crevice, not far from where 33 miners are currently trapped in Chile.

Original post:
Horse rescued from mine in Chile

Forty-eight people have been rescued after a passenger plane crashes in north-eastern China with at least 91 people on board, state media report.

See original here:
Plane crashes in north-east China

A pair of British climbers have been rescued after spending a day stuck 3,500m up Mont Blanc mountain in Italy.

Read the original here:
Mountain rescue for stuck Britons