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The 6-year-old Colorado boy who is believed to have set adrift a helium balloon Thursday, prompting ground and air searches, has been found alive, authorities said. He was found in a box in the attic at his family's Fort Collins home, according to authorities.

Eighty-five passengers were missing and feared dead Saturday after their ferry flipped and sank off Tonga, with only two bodies recovered more than two days after the disaster.

Rescue officials searched the South Pacific's waters for 33 people missing after a ferry sank during the night off the coast ...

The remains of the first American lost in the Persian Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, after struggling ...

Nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China's northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night, exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said Wednesday, calling for an international investigation.

Teenage hiker lost for 12 days in Australia's Blue Mountains found alive.

Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, apologized in a rambling news conference for having an affair, ending a mystery over his week-long disappearance.

Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina said he was confounded by the attention his absence had attracted.

An Air France plane with 228 people on board was presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after hitting heavy turbulence during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

A rescue team combing a tourist hotspot in northern China failed to find a missing visitor but instead made a ghastly discovery, Reuters reported — seven dead bodies.