Topic: surfing

A teenage girl was killed Monday in a shark attack in Queensland, Australia. The 17-year-old suffered a "serious shark bite" at Woorim Beach, just north of Brisbane, while swimming approximately 100 yards from shore.

Authorities in South Australia are searching the waters of the Great Australian Bight for the body of a surfer presumed dead after being attacked by a shark.

Two Somali pirates were sentenced to three decades in prison over the kidnapping of an American journalist held in captivity for nearly 1,000 days, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

A 61-year-old man surfing on the Hawaiian island of Maui had has leg completely severed during a shark attack, local police say.

Friday's Google Doodle celebrates the grand opening of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.

Del Mar officials closed the California town's beaches to swimming and surfing on Sunday after a man was attacked by a shark earlier that morning.

Mexican officials on Saturday said they charged three people in connection with the disappearance of three tourists who went missing in Baja California last month.

Unprovoked shark attacks increased slightly worldwide last year, but twice as many people died from shark bites as the year before, new data show.

Khai Cowley, a 15 year-old surfer killed in a shark attack near South Australia's Innes National Park Thursday, was described as a talented surfer. He was attacked near Ethel Beach.

Authorities in southern Australia said a shark killed a 14-year-old boy surfing near the tip of the Yorke Peninsula on Thursday.