Imagine if you had a medical emergency in a vast frozen wasteland, but adequate care simply wasn't available.
That's exactly what happened to 58-year-old Renee-Nicole Douceur, a worker at the Amundsen-Scott research station in the South Pole, when she suffered a stroke in late August, reported Today.
A man in England stripped down to his boxers and lowered himself into a harbor to save an injured pigeon from drowning. Watch the bird-lover's aquatic rescue below.
In yet another amazing tale proving some animals are more compassionate than human beings, we humbly submit Jolie, the heroic mama cat.
Jolie calls England her home, and when she was pregnant, some cruel dolt tossed her out of a moving car. She survived, and a kind soul fed her and eventually confined her in a rural area before calling the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
An armed robber was caught on tape holding up a clerk in a jewelry store in Istanbul, Turkey. But he didn't count on the clerk's 12-year-old son, who makes a thrilling rescue in this intense video.
A father and son, who were the only two people riding the roller coaster at a Shandong, China amusement park, found themselves hanging upside down when the ride got stuck in the middle of one of its loops.
Brandon Wright, the 21-year-old man who was pulled to safety from beneath a burning car by a brave group of strangers, spoke out for the first time about his rescue on 'Today.'
Brandon Wright, the 21-year-old student whose life was saved when a group of strangers pulled him from beneath a burning car, is in recovery at a Murray, Utah hospital, 'Today' reports. His saviors, whose brave rescue was caught on camera in a video that went viral yesterday, spoke about the experience to the press.
Kate Winslet was among the guests who were unharmed when a fire caused by tropical storm Irene destroyed part of tycoon Richard Branson's vacation complex in the British Virgin Islands -- and became a hero when she rescued Branson's elderly mother from the blaze.