Boaties have been asked to look out for missing yacht Tafadzwa, which could be drifting without a skipper at the helm.

The first medical officer on the scene after two men fell from Piha's Lion Rock found one man hardly breathing and the other with mangled legs.

Two men are fighting for their lives after falling more than 20 metres from Lion Rock on Auckland's west coast early today.

An Auckland teenager spent 18 hours clinging to a liferaft off the coast of Brazil after her ship capsized.

A New Zealander was one of 64 people rescued from a Canadian sailing ship, filled with high school and university students, that sunk off the coast of Brazil.

The body of a veteran climber who fell 450 metres into the crater atop the Mount St Helens volcano was recovered today.