Image of Asia: Air search for missing AirAsia jet
By The Associated Press In this photo by Associated Press photographer Dita Alangkara, who flew in a C-130 with Indonesia’s air force Monday, crew members scan the horizon during a…
Search and rescue efforts
AirAsia plane carrying 162 lost; 3rd Malaysia airline shock
By ALI KOTARUMALOS and MARGIE MASON An astonishingly tragic year for air travel in Southeast Asia turned worse Sunday when an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people disappeared over stormy Indonesian…
American, South African hostages killed in Yemen
By JULIE PACE and AHMED AL-HAJ An American photojournalist and a South African teacher were killed Saturday during a high-risk, U.S.-led raid to free them from al-Qaida-affiliated militants in Yemen,…
Israeli troops kill Palestinian in arrest raids
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH Israeli soldiers walk downstairs in a building as they search for three missing Israeli teens in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, June 20, 2014.…
PASSENGERS RESCUED OFF SHIP STUCK IN ANTARCTIC ICE
By ROD McGUIRK In this photo provided China’s official Xinhnua News Agency, the first group of passengers of the trapped Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy arrive at a safe surface…
OFFICIALS: ENCOURAGING SIGN FOR 24 STRANDED WHALES
By CHRISTINE ARMARIO Vultures feed off the carcasses of an adult whale and and a calf ,Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at Highland Beach in the Everglades National Park, Fla. Wildlife…
MAN SURVIVES 3 DAYS AT BOTTOM OF ATLANTIC
By MICHELLE FAUL In this image made available Tuesday Dec. 3, 2013, Harrison Odjegba Okene looks in awe as a rescue diver surfaces into the air pocket which has kept…
1 DEAD IN POLICE HELICOPTER CRASH ONTO GLASGOW PUB
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD and BEN McCONVILLE Firefighters and rescue workers inspect the damage on the roof of the building at the site of a helicopter crash, in Glasgow early Saturday…