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Japanese coast guard rescues man after boat capsizes

Budget Travel? Coast Guard Arrest Man Sailing on Raft Made of Plastic Bottles

Border guards patrolling the Kerch Strait picked up a man sailing a hand-made raft of plastic bottles on Wednesday and brought him into custody. Authorities noticed the man's ludicrous floating device while patrolling the water around a mile from the coastline. It turned out that the man, a 53-year-old native of Tashkent, was attempted to make the crossing from the Russian mainland to the Crimean peninsula via his rickety, hand-made contraption. Police gave the traveller a warning for violating the marine travel laws and sent him on his way.

U.S. Coast Guard rescues two mariners from sailing boat off the Washington coast

Man and cat in Alaska boat rescue

Video released by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a sailor's dramatic leap to safety from a disabled sailing boat. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

U.S.-led strikes hit Islamic State, al Qaeda-linked group in Syria

U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.