Local authorities have announced that they will cease efforts to guide a young humpback whale to its home waters. Now a restricted area has been established to allow it to "die in peace." After a week ...

BERLIN (AP) — A stranded humpback whale in Germany's Baltic Sea looks weaker, and experts fear it won't be able to find its way back to the Atlantic despite several attempts at its rescue this week. A ...

A humpback whale has once again become stranded in the Baltic Sea, just days after rescuers in Germany helped set it free. The whale became stuck again in the waters off Wismar Bay, in north Germany, ...

The unlucky humpback was spotted stranded on a sandbank in the Bay of Wismar, less than two days after being set free. A humpback whale that had been stranded for days off Germany’s Baltic coast has ...

Rescuers used boats and excavators to try to guide 10-metre long sea mammal to deeper waters A humpback whale stranded on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast since early this week has freed itself and swum ...

In an unexpected breakthrough, the 40-foot mammal was freed and swam to deeper water on Friday morning through a channel that rescuers had dug for it. By Jenny Gross Against the odds, a 40-foot ...

Rescuers who have been trying to free a whale stranded in shallow water off the north German coast have said "every minute counts" as they battle to release the animal. Sven Biertumpfel, of the Sea ...

Rescue crews in northern Germany are working to save a humpback whale that has become stranded in shallow water off the Baltic Sea coast in Lübeck Bay, according to CNN affiliate RTL. The whale was ...

A handwritten “SOS” message in the sand helped save two stranded Hawaii visitors as flash floods swept across Oahu, where Coast Guard and Navy crews also rescued five people and a dog from a rooftop.

The war in Iran has stranded tens of thousands of Americans in the Middle East who weren’t told by the U.S. government to leave until many countries in the region had closed their airspace to ...

When the U.S. ignited a war with Iran last weekend, the State Department issued a plea to Americans to "depart now" from several countries in the region. But airspace closures left thousands of ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that Americans who are reporting being stranded in various parts of the Middle East as a result of Iranian retaliation to U.S. strikes ...