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Rescuers battled high waves Sunday as they searched for 200 asylum seekers still missing after their wooden ship sank off Indonesia's main island of Java. So far only 33 people have been plucked alive from the choppy waters alive....

Three women riding on a jet ski were killed when they crashed into a boat Saturday at a Los Angeles County reservoir.

A wooden boat packed with asylum seekers smashed against jagged rocks in a storm off an Australian island Wednesday, flinging terrified occupants into churning waters and killing at least 27 people.

A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday.

At least 138 people have drowned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a riverboat capsized in bad weather. Local police say the accident happened Wednesday in the western province of Bandundu, about 300 kilometers east of the capital, Kinshasa.