Grandmother saves man from crocodile
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A 60-year-old women has become an unlikely Australian hero after jumping on the back of a 4m-long crocodile when it attacked a man asleep in a tent.
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A man is rescued after being stuck up to his neck in mud when he fell into a river in County Fermanagh.
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SARASOTA, Fla. - The devastation brought on by Hurricane Charley has been especially painful for an elderly population that is among the largest in the nation...
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WICHITA FALLS, Texas - A woman was arrested after acknowledging to police that she drove about 15 minutes with her 9-year-old grandson locked in the car trunk after he soiled his pants, authorities said.
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TULSA, Okla. - A bungee cord on a thrill ride broke, leaving a man dangling 25 feet off the ground for a half-hour until he was rescued by firefighters. Steve Alan Stone, 48, was not seriously hurt in the incident Monday at the Tulsa State Fair.
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Major rescue operation to free man from bog on Dorset beach
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KIEV, Ukraine - An animal trainer who brought a crocodile to the beach to drum up interest in a circus got some unwelcome publicity when it broke free and made off into the Azov Sea.
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First mammoth waves washed over their villages, leaving not a single hut standing. Then the survivors' ordeal began: days of thirst, hunger and miles of walking until &#151; just at the point of rescue &#151; a hungry pack of crocodiles tried to snap them up.
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When a visitor from Canada was attacked by a shark this month, Dr. Peter Galpin helped save his life and the use of his hand. Galpin himself doesn't have full use of his own limbs, but his wheelchair didn't get in the way.
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A father tells how he saved his family from the killer tsunami by strapping them into a  tree using towels.
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Australian &quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin will get a final send-off in the &quot;Crocoseum&quot; of his beloved family zoo next week, his widow revealed in her first comments since his death.
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SARASOTA, Fla. Aug. 18, 2004  The devastation brought on by Hurricane Charley has been especially painful for an elderly population that is among the largest in the nation.
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BEERWAH, Australia -- Steve Irwin pulled a poisonous stingray barb from his chest in his dying moments, his longtime manager said yesterday, after watching videotape of the attack that killed the popular ``Crocodile Hunter."
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&quot;Crocodile Hunter&quot; Steve Irwin pulled a stingray barb out of his chest moments before he died, a witness said after watching film of the freak attack that killed the wildlife daredevil.
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Wildlife officers captured an alligator Thursday that they believe fatally attacked a Tennessee woman while she snorkeled in a secluded recreation area.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - Rita Weston survived  Hurricane Charley huddled under a mattress with her husband and  mother in a mobile home she bought 35 years ago. But before the  storm passed, the home was reduced to scrap wood and metal.
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Rescue staff save the newest member of one of the endangered indigenous tribes in the tsunami-struck Andaman islands.