Rescue workers are desperately hoping that Julen Rossello will still be alive by the time they reach him.

A baby boy has been found alive on Tuesday (January 1) after 35 hours spent in freezing cold in the rubble of a Russian apartment block that partially collapsed in an explosion.

High pressure pumps and divers from the Indian Navy were brought to Ksan in northeastern India on Saturday (December 29) to aid rescue operations for 15 coal miners trapped underground since December 13

A summit in Brussels shows the potential of drones in search and rescue operations

A protest was held in Athens to bring attention to the increasingly hostile treatment of migrants by some EU countries

Emergency services in southern Italy are continuing their search of a gorge in Calabria that flooded on Monday killing at least ten people

A melting glacier in Switzerland has uncovered the crash site of a World War Two plane that came down in the alps

Japanese police and volunteers stepped up their their search for a 36 year old Frech women who went missing two weeks ago. Tiphaine Veron has not been seen after leaving her lodging in Nikko, a popular tourist destination north of Tokyo.

Almost 400 people are known to have died in an earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok last Sunday and officials say the number of victims is still rising

Two German campsite owners have been detained and face possible charges after nine children were injured in flooding in southern France and an elderly man went missing.

Eighty-seven more migrants arrived in southern Spain on Thursday after being rescued off the coast of Libya

Indonesia has been rocked anew by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Thousands of people are awaiting urgent aid on the Indonesian island of Lombok after a powerful earthquake left them homeless and without food, clean water or medical care. Search and rescue efforts continue as many are still feared to be trapped underneath the wreckage.