Boat Capsizes Off Australia

After a boat capsized off Papua New Guinea, four men went missing, out of which the fourth man was reportedly rescued on an isolated beach after scrawling "help" in the sand. The search for the other passengers from Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea is still in process.

A boat carrying some 150 asylum-seekers capsized off Christmas Island on Tuesday but the Australian navy saved most of them, rescuers said.

A crowded boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia capsized on Wednesday and 125 survivors and one body were recovered from the Indian Ocean, less than a week after more than 90 people drowned on a similar journey.

A boat carrying about 200 suspected asylum seekers has capsized in Indonesian waters 120 nautical miles (220 km) north of Australia's Christmas Island, rescue officials said on Thursday.

Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and eight ships scoured the area after the MV Rabaul Queen went down while traveling from Kimbe on the island of New Britain to the coa...

After a boat capsized off Papua New Guinea, four men went missing, out of which the fourth man was reportedly rescued on an isolated beach after scrawling "help" in the sand. The search for the other passengers from Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea is still in process.

A boat carrying some 150 asylum-seekers capsized off Christmas Island on Tuesday but the Australian navy saved most of them, rescuers said.

A crowded boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia capsized on Wednesday and 125 survivors and one body were recovered from the Indian Ocean, less than a week after more than 90 people drowned on a similar journey.

A boat carrying about 200 suspected asylum seekers has capsized in Indonesian waters 120 nautical miles (220 km) north of Australia's Christmas Island, rescue officials said on Thursday.

Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said. An airplane from Australia, three helicopters and eight ships scoured the area after the MV Rabaul Queen went down while traveling from Kimbe on the island of New Britain to the coa...