Two Navy divers who reached into the sea to grab a wetsuit hood they thought they had dropped were shocked to find their friend, missing diver Robert Hewitt.
“Kia ora,” he said to Lyle Cairns and Buzz Tomoana as they hauled him from the sea yesterday off Mana Island where he had spent the last 75 [...]

Five hours after falling overboard from his small aluminium runabout, 44 year old Busselton man Raymond Wilson stunned his rescuers by walking into a caravan park after swimming five kilometres through rough, shark-infested waters.
On Monday morning Raymond was fishing with his brother Ross in their small boat in Geographe Bay, about 200km south of Perth [...]

They were living happily as husband and wife only to be told by a council they had to give that all up and become brother and sister.
The Asanda village council in the northern Indian state of Haryana said Sonia and Rampal belonged to two closely related clans that had “brotherly relations”.
Although a court order has [...]

On this day in 1916, Germany declares war on Portugal, who earlier that year honored its alliance with Great Britain by seizing German ships anchored in Lisbon’s harbor.
Portugal became a republic in 1910 after a revolution led by the country’s military toppled King Manuel II (his father, King Carlos, and elder brother had been assassinated [...]