Professional distance swimmer Ben Lecomte has set off from Japan to San Francisco in an attempt to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean.

Six adults and an unconscious baby were rescued on Sunday from a life raft in the Pacific Ocean after drifting for four days in the blazing sun without water.

Tributes have been paid to a sailor killed after being swept into the Pacific ocean while competing in a global yacht race - the second Briton aboard the same boat to die during this edition of the competition.

A 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital after a helicopter has crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.