Two people have been rescued from a burning home in Melbourne's north after a car was set alight inside an adjoining milk bar overnight. 

An urgent search is under way for a swimmer who has been swept away off the NSW Central Coast.

Police have charged two men after seizing vintage firearms believed to have been stolen from a museum in southern NSW.

The pair were last seen together on Monday night, with police appealing for more information.

A dozen Egyptian migrants are believed to have died after their boat capsized off Libya's coast, with one survivor rescued.

VANCOUVER - A sea lion has been freed off the coast of Vancouver Island after getting so entangled in netting that rescuers say it's possible he...

VANCOUVER - A sea lion has been freed off the coast of Vancouver Island after getting so entangled in netting that rescuers say it's possible he...

VANCOUVER - A sea lion has been freed off the coast of Vancouver Island after getting so entangled in netting that rescuers say it's possible he...

VANCOUVER - A sea lion has been freed off the coast of Vancouver Island after getting so entangled in netting that rescuers say it's possible he...

A woman attacked by a shark about 200 kilometres off the coast of Queensland had to be rescued by a navy ship and transported back to land.