Saying he just wants to help her prepare to achieve her dream of someday swimming across the English Channel, a father tied his daughter's hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours Tuesday. In an interview, Huang Daosheng said her daughter, Huang Li, 10, swam more than a mile in the Xiang River on Tuesday, traveling with the current.

A 55-year-old scooter riding woman was reportedly rescued from a trap six feet underground. The woman was driving the motor scooter in an open storm drain and became trapped in it. She has no life threatening injuries and is recovering from the accident.