By plane, hot-air balloon and gondola: the English Channel has been crossed in many inventive ways, and on Sunday Frenchman Franky Zapata succeeded in crossing on a jet-powered hoverboard on his ...

With each stroke into the cold sea, their hand felt the chill of the ocean’s salt water. The air was dense with thick fog, they said, making it hard to see what was ahead. But the two Newport Beach ...

PARIS, France — One person has died after attempting to cross the English Channel from a beach in northern France, local authorities said on Saturday, bringing the death toll this year in the perilous ...