US boy, 15, rescued after clinging to capsized boat for days in Alaska’s Bering Sea

Bobbing for days atop a capsized skiff in Alaska’s frigid Bering Sea, a 15-year-old boy held on until he was rescued by a fishing vessel this week, the US coastguard said. The boy’s brother and a cousin died sometime after the small boat flipped, according to the rescuers. Their bodies were found after the teen was hoisted to safety near St Lawrence Island – a remote Alaskan island that is closer to Russia than it is to the United States. The captain of the fishing boat, The Northwest Explorer,...