International Business News - Rescued http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif For four hours the two roommates trudged through crashing waves and deadly currents to escape their island community. He, clinging to a neighbor's small boy. She, helping an elderly couple. Four hours for this caravan of the desperate to go just four miles. And that was before the eye of Hurricane Ike had even reached the shore. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/evacuees-wade-to-safety-face-death-in-ikes-wake.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:02:11 EDT The longtime owner of a Parkersburg-area dog kennel has surrendered her approximately 1,000 dogs to humane officials after authorities executed a search warrant on the property over the weekend. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/116364-dogs-rescued.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/about-1-000-dogs-are-rescued-from-w-va-kennel.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/about-1-000-dogs-are-rescued-from-w-va-kennel.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:20:12 EDT Mexican officials say soldiers have rescued 25 Central Americans kidnapped in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. State police spokesman Sergio Lopez says the army raided a house in the town of Tierra Blanca and arrested one man Monday. He says authorities are looking for five other suspects. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/mexican-army-frees-25-migrants-from-smugglers.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:40:58 EDT How many cheerleaders can cram into an elevator? Apparently not 26. A group of teenage girls attending a cheerleading camp on the University of Texas got stuck and had to be rescued after trying to squeeze into an elevator at a residence hall Tuesday night. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080806/26-teen-cheerleaders-rescued-from-crammed-elevator.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:26:36 EDT Investigators and animal welfare activists have rescued 18 dogs from the butcher's knife in the northern Philippines, using a new law against the illegal meat trade, an official said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/philippine-officials-save-18-dogs-from-butcher.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:52:50 EDT Dean Ririe had a fish on the line, then made one wrong step that led to a terrifying night trapped up to his waist in a frigid mountain stream. He wasn't sure if he'd drown or if the cold would get him first, but he was losing hope that anyone would hear his cries for help. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/100297-fisherman-rescued.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/fisherman-survives-cold-night-stuck-in-utah-creek.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/fisherman-survives-cold-night-stuck-in-utah-creek.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:53:37 EDT A helicopter rescued nine young hikers Monday who were trapped overnight on a ledge above a rain-swollen creek. The Erie County sheriff's helicopter brought the hikers down from the spot about 20 feet above Cattauraugus Creek in western New York, state police Sgt. Thomas Kelly said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/9-young-hikers-rescued-from-western-ny-gorge.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:27:18 EDT A 12-year-old boy climbed hundreds of feet down into a crevice in a mountain gorge in western Nepal on Wednesday to rescue a 2-year-old girl who had fallen in 22 hours earlier, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/child-rescued-after-22-hours-in-crevice-in-nepal.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:21:04 EDT Police say they have found 154 illegal migrants inside a semitrailer. Federal police official Arturo Herrera says many of the migrants were suffering from severe dehydration after spending nearly a week cramped inside the semitrailer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/mexican-police-rescue-154-illegal-migrants.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:36:10 EDT Malaysia's police seized four infants from an baby-trafficking ring that purchased newborns from poor mothers and sold them to childless couples, an official said Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080525/malaysian-police-rescue-4-babies-from-traffickers.htm Sun, 25 May 2008 03:26:21 EDT As he lay pinned by a concrete slab on his chest, Yuan Jiang heard the stuttering beep of the alarm clock on his cell phone, the only thing helping him keep track of time while trapped in a collapsed office building. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/50494-china-earthquake.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080520/cell-phone-beep-marked-days-for-china-quake-victim.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080520/cell-phone-beep-marked-days-for-china-quake-victim.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 15:11:58 EDT Chinese state news agency says that soldiers have dug out a 52-year-old man who was buried in ruins for 117 hours after a massive earthquake hit China. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/chinese-news-agency-says-man-saved-after-117-hours.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 03:12:49 EDT Chinese state news agency says that German tourist has been rescued after being buried for 114 hours in earthquake rubble. The official Xinhua News Agency said the tourist was saved in Wenchuan, the epicenter of Monday's massive earthquake. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/47896-china-earthquake.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/chinese-news-agency-says-german-saved-after-114-hours.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080517/chinese-news-agency-says-german-saved-after-114-hours.htm Sat, 17 May 2008 02:26:25 EDT Eight amateur divers were rescued Monday after floating for nearly 40 hours at sea off southern Taiwan as strong currents carried them some 50 miles away from their diving spot, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080428/missing-taiwanese-divers-rescued-at-sea.htm Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:26:44 EDT Police rescued 83 illegal migrants Friday from the hidden compartment of a cramped, sweltering cargo truck carrying animal feed through southern Mexico. At a roadblock near the Guatemalan border, th... http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080411/mexico-police-save-83-migrants-in-truck.htm Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:29:29 EDT A 2-year-old girl who fell into a 45-foot well was rescued late Wednesday after 27 hours, officials said. Rescuers spent much of Wednesday trying to pull the girl, identified only as Vandana, from the narrow well in a village near Agra, the site of the famed Taj Mahal, said Mukesh Meshram, the top official in the district south of New Delhi. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080326/toddler-rescued-from-well-in-india.htm Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:23:18 EDT A scrawny, black and white female kitten has apparently survived a trip across the Pacific Ocean and North America inside a shipping crate. Cleveland Animal Protective League Executive Director Sharon Harvey says a Cleveland company that received the crate of spooled steel coil Friday found the kitten inside one the spools. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080307/kitten-found-in-crate-from-singapore.htm Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:33:20 EST A scrawny, black and white female kitten apparently survived a trip across the Pacific Ocean and North America inside a shipping crate. Cleveland Animal Protective League Executive Director Sharon Harvey says a Cleveland company that received the crate of spooled steel coil Friday found the kitten inside one the spools. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/33081-rescued-kitten.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080307/kitten-survives-trip-in-shipping-crate.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080307/kitten-survives-trip-in-shipping-crate.htm Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:02:05 EST Bella, a 3-year-old golden retriever/collie mix who was once rescued as an abused puppy, returned the favor to her owners by alerting them to a house fire. With help from Maddie, a 6-month-old golden retriever, Bella helped get Sue Feuling and her 9-year-old daughter, Mckenzie, out of the house last week. The dogs didn't make it. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080211/dogs-give-up-their-lives-to-save-family.htm Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:16:56 EST Once a frozen embryo threatened by Hurricane Katrina, little Noah Markham _ named for the survivor of the biblical flood-of-all-floods _ celebrated his first birthday Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080116/katrina-rescued-embryo-baby-turns-1.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:43:27 EST