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.

For the fourth consecutive year, all the dogs in Ramapo, New York are invited to an exclusive pool party at Spook Rock Pool. The fourth annual Dog Days of Summer K-9 Pool Party will take place from noon to 3 p. m. on Sept. 9. The event helps to raise funds for animal care and education about dogs.

A 5-foot-long rattlesnake, which was spotted swimming in a saltwater creek, was killed by a man on a South Carolina barrier island resort after it became a threat to a family. According to UPI news, Lonnie Deal of Statesville, North Carolina said he is comfortable around snakes and collected them as a boy. But when a rattlesnake raced toward a man, his wife and three kids, he decided to kill the reptile on spot.

Police has arrested two teenagers who were found to be loitering around the swimming pool of the same hotel that they had robbed about 15 hours ago. Brandon J. Brooks, 18, and Dillion Clark, 16, held a man and a woman at a gunpoint around 2 a. m. Saturday on the beach by Shorewood Villas on Hilton Head Island. The teenage robbers took the victims' cell phones, purses, wallets and cash.

A lost penguin ended up swimming onto the coast of Peru. The Magellanic penguin apparently got lost during his search for food. Officials at Peru's National Resource Institute say the penguin swam about 3,100 miles north of his home in southern Chile. He apparently suffered an injury to his right wing.