This is the dramatic moment tourists plunged into the sea during a parasailing ride gone wrong in the Philippines. Footage shows the holidaymakers slowly falling through the air after the speedboat ...

The City Council will decide Tuesday whether or not to approve donating one of the city's surplus fire engines to Walnut Grove's all-volunteer fire district.

Every year, tens of thousands of migrants set off to Europe from Africa in fragile wooden boats. But there’s growing evidence that these perilous journeys are marred by horrific crimes.

A record 11,074 people arrived in small boats before May this year ... smuggler gang supply chains to restrict the number of boats and engines making it to the French coast.

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I’m angry too.” You have every right to be angry about small boat crossings. I'm angry too. We are ramping up our efforts to smash the people smuggling gangs at source. Hundreds of boats and engines: ...

Opposition politicians in Britain say that smugglers are exploiting a French law that bars police from acting once migrants are in the water. The UK is pressing France to change how it polices ...

A small plane ... Police Department Marine Patrol Unit was called to the lake at the north end of the airport at 2:30 p.m. Police said the privately owned single-engine airplane made an emergency ...

Nearly 1200 migrants arrived in the UK in small boats from France across the English Channel - the highest number recorded on a single day so far this year.

LONDON (AP) — U.K. government figures Sunday showed nearly 1,200 migrants arrived in the country Saturday in small boats from France across the English Channel, the highest number recorded on a ...

The facts:– Small boat arrivals up 95% from this point ... He claimed hundreds of boats and engines had been “seized”, raids on illegal working were up, and “almost 30,000 people ...