A man attempting to row across the Atlantic from Senegal to New York in memory of victims of the slave trade and to raise money to fight AIDS watched his boat sink when he was rescued after it sprang a leak, police told AFP. Victor Mooney, a 41-year-old New Yorker, set off from the island of Goree off Dakar on Sunday morning planning to row 8,000 miles (12,900 kilometres) via South America and the Caribbean in a 24-foot (7.3 metre) boat. The Senegalese navy received a distress call from Mooney about an hour into his journey and contacted police who...