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.

A missing finance chief found disorientated and dishevelled after four nights sleeping rough was under stress at work.

Police in Australia are investigating a report that missing multi-millionaire Herman Rockefeller has been spotted in a small town west of Melbourne.

A shop assistant was rescued in good condition despite surviving 11 days since the earthquake crumbled Haiti's capital.

A lone hero dived into the swirling tide to save a drowning woman. But who was he?

New Zealand would be open to sending police to help in Haiti if asked to, Prime Minister John Key says. UN chief Ban Ki-moon has requested 3500 extra troops and police.

Police asking citizens to take justice into their own hands against gang leaders who escaped from a quake damaged prison.

Influential gang leaders who escaped from a heavily damaged prison during the Haiti's killer earthquake are starting to wreak havoc across Port-au Prince.

Amid the devastation, spirits in Haiti are lifted as remarkable stories of successful rescues continue to emerge.