The Pakistan army said it dispatched a rescue mission and aid supplies to the damaged areas.
The Pakistan army announced that it dispatched a rescue mission and aid supplies to the damaged areas.
British special forces are on standby to stage a rescue mission in Algeria, after foreign gas plant workers were taken hostage, says the Times.
Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- French forces swooped into Somalia for a rescue mission under the cover of darkness, leading to a fierce gun battle with militants who killed the hostage, the French defense ministry said Saturday.
Because Atlantis will not be able to reach the space station if it gets into trouble, or is damaged, on its Hubble flight, the Endeavour orbiter will be made ready on the pad for a rescue mission in case it is needed.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Endeavour launched from Florida
Well, if they get back to flying Atlantis and if they get back to flying Atlantis in September, which they dearly would like to do, they have to get the Discovery ready because the new rules say you have to have another shuttle ready to fly as a rescue mission.
Pte Gregg Stone, 20, from Atwick, was killed during a hostage rescue mission in Helmand province in June.
Space Shuttle Endeavour was staged for a possible rescue mission in case Space Shuttle Atlantis gets into trouble while the crew is fixing the Hubble Telescope.
Fortunately, a congressional rescue mission can be effected fairly easily, thanks to the Osprey contractors' commitment to the program and that of the Marines -- who, to their lasting credit, have never wavered (despite intense pressure from the Office of the Secretary of Defense) in their insistence that the Osprey is the Corps' top procurement priority.
But Minnesota officials keep saying over and over that this is still a rescue and recovery mission.
The government insists that Mr de la Calle was merely on a humanitarian mission to rescue the kidnapped parliamentarians.
While foreign minister, for instance, he once mounted a unilateral mission to rescue a French hostage from the jungle in Colombia, which ended in failure and fiasco.
Along for the ride in the new film are Captain Ibanez and Carl Jenkins, who set out on a perilous mission to rescue survivors of a Federation outpost under attack by the alien bugs.
Officially, this remains a rescue not a recovery mission but the grim reality is that it is more than three days since anyone was found alive in the debris and time is running out.
BBC: New Zealand quake: UK search-and-rescue team optimistic
The U.S. Coast Guard, the Volusia County Beach Patrol and the sheriff's office immediately launched a search-and-rescue mission using helicopters, boats and personal watercraft to try to find the Winter Park, Florida, father and son.
CNN: Father, son rescued after more than 12 hours in Atlantic
The rescue mission already owned a vacant medical building in Highland Park, an impoverished city within Detroit's borders.
These collaborative robots remind us a lot of NASA's SuperBot, only with a clear mission to search and rescue (and minus the crazy acrobatics).
Captain ANDREW SMITH (Director, LAPD Central Division): The three big missions - Union Rescue, L.A. Mission and the Midnight Mission - feed people and they do tremendous job at it.
The French, presumably, will expect a clean election as the first down payment on their rescue mission.
She portrayed Mr Breteau as an "all-powerful manipulator" who had convinced her at a meeting in Paris that his mission in Chad would rescue Darfur orphans find them homes in France.
BBC: Two French charity workers jailed in 'false orphans' case
Most homeless kids are not immunized nor ever seen by a doctor except in an emergency, says Chad Audi, president of Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, which provides meals and housing.
The three European powers face the task of cobbling together an intervention force in Macedonia, ready to rescue, if necessary, the unarmed mission which is supposed to be verifying a ceasefire in neighbouring Kosovo.
The mission tonight is to rendezvous with a U.S. search-and-rescue helicopter.
Their mission is to rescue an Italian-born American citizen (Monica Bellucci), a doctor operating a Catholic missionary hospital.
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