A distress signal co-developed by the Canadian Women's Foundation and a Toronto ad agency is being credited with helping a missing teenage girl from North Carolina who was rescued by police after ...

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A 16-year-old girl held captive by a 61-year-old man was rescued on an interstate highway in Kentucky after another driver noticed her using a distress signal with her hand ...

Here are the origins and uses of major distress signals -- Mayday, Pan‑Pan, SOS, CQD and Sécurité -- along with key moments when these calls saved lives.

A search and rescue team on Vancouver Island is crediting an iPhone feature for sending out a distress signal that helped save two people’s lives. Arrowsmith Search and Rescue said it received ...

It isn't known if the two railway workers could have made a distress call. Transport Canada said it couldn't answer that question, since it will be subject to their investigation.