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Costa Concordia to be ready for towing by early 2013

At least 30 people died after the Costa Concordia slammed into a reef off Giglio on January 13, 2012...

Ring ceremony onboard Jhelum cruise

The families of the boy and girl, who were engaged on board the cruise, requested that their names a...

Costa Concordia to be salvaged in 1 piece

Salvage work to remove the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship from its rocky perch off Tuscany, wh...

Cruise ship ignores dying castaways in Pacific Ocean

A Panamanian man and his two friends had been drifting for 16 days in an open fishing boat in the Pa...

`Concordia captain must stay under house arrest`

Francesco Schettino captained the ship that struck a rock formation off the Tuscan coast on January ...

Cruise ship to retrace voyage of Titanic

The Titanic Memorial Cruise is set to depart from Southampton, where the Titanic left on its maiden ...

Capsized Costa Concordia to be refloated

Engineers will be working around the clock seven days a week for a year on the process that is likel...

Cruise ship drama ends in Malaysia; captain lauded

The Azamara Quest was stranded off Philippines with 1,000 people aboard after flames engulfed one of...

Fire-hit ship with Indian crew reaches Malaysia

A crippled luxury cruise ship with 1,001 people, including 58 Indians, safely reached a Malaysian ...

Cruise ship heads for Malaysian port after engine fire

The fire on the Azamara Quest started late Friday, a day after the ship left Manila for Sandakan, Ma...

Brahmos supersonic cruise missile test fired successfully

India today successfully test fired Brahmos supersonic cruise missile as part of a user trial by the...

Work to remove fuel from Costa Concordia completed

Over 2,000 tonnes of fuel and sewage has been drained from the ship, which sank after hitting rocks ...

Five more bodies found in Costa Concordia wreck

A crew member from India and several passengers are among those listed as missing or unidentified.

French, German victims of Italy shipwreck identified

The bodies of tourists on board the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner have been formally ide...

In Seychelles, scary moments described aboard ship

Life boats were lowered, passengers said. Austrian Thomas Foaller said some passengers began to pani...

Passengers leave disabled cruise ship after fire

Passengers disembarking from a disabled cruise ship said they had prepared to abandon ship when fire...

Disabled cruise ship arrives in Seychelles port

A disabled cruise ship on Thursday docked in the island nation of the Seychelles after three days a...

Costa Cruise liner towed to Seychelles` main island

A crippled cruise ship owned by the same company as the capsized Costa Concordia was being towed to ...

Moldovan dancer `kissed` Costa Concordia’s captain

Domnica Cemortan was allegedly dining with the captain of Costa Concordia before the Italian luxury ...

Divers find 8 more bodies on Costa Concordia

Italy`s national civil protection agency said four of the bodies had been recovered.

4 bodies located in Italy cruise liner wreck

Up to four bodies have been located in the wreckage of the semi-submerged cruise liner Costa Conco...

Cocaine in Costa Concordia captain`s hair

The cocaine was, however, not found within the strands of Francesco Schettino’s hair or in his urine...

Italy: Costa Concordia moves in rough seas

Italian TG5 broadcast video showing confusion among the captain and crew on the ship`s bridge after ...

Costa Concordia to be salvaged by US firm

A report says Costa Concordia could become the most complicated marine salvage operation in history.

`Italy cruise lawsuits will push higher standards`

Insurers stung by multi-million dollar claims over Concordia shipwreck will demand higher safety sta...

2,697-year jail term for Costa Concordia captain?

Schettino could face 8-year jail sentence for each one of the 300 passengers and crew he allegedly l...

`Woman sues Costa Concordia over miscarriage`

Cristina M from Milan was five months pregnant when she boarded the luxury liner on January 13.

Carnival cruise ship passengers struck with virus

More than 100 people on board a cruise ship operated by a unit of Carnival Corp have fallen ill with...

Dancer’s lingerie found in cruise captain’s cabin

A Moldovan ballet dancer was spotted with the captain of Costa Concordia on the night of the disaste...

Costa Concordia owners expect removal plans by March

Costa Cruises has invited 10 leading salvage companies to tender for the contract to remove the ship...

Search for bodies on Italian cruise ship abandoned

A statement said conditions on the wreck had made it impossible for divers to continue working safel...

Wrecked Costa Concordia won’t be moved for months

Divers searching for bodies in the hulk suspended work after heavy seas and strong winds caused the ...

Bad weather stops work on capsized Italian ship

The ship lies half-submerged just meters from shore on a rock shelf near the Tuscan island of Giglio...

Salvage crews suspend work on Costa Concordia

Divers found the body of a woman on Saturday, bringing the number of known dead to 17.

Costa Concordia passengers sue Carnival for $460 mn

Six passengers of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia are suing Carnival Cruise Lines, demandin...

Costa offers €11,000 to passengers on Concordia

Passengers and crew are free to pursue legal action if they aren`t satisfied with the deal.

Costa Concordia disaster: Carnival Corp sued

Carnival Corp`s luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Italy, which left 11 p...

Costa Concordia captain "wasted precious hour"

Captain Francesco Schettino is blamed for causing the accident by steering the vessel too close to s...

`Italy captain says was told to approach shore`

The conversation was apparently taped without the knowledge of Captain while he was being held in cu...

Workers to pump oil from grounded cruise tomorrow

Preliminary operations to remove a half-million gallons of fuel from the grounded cruise ship, befor...

Italy cruise ship captain blames company pressure

The captain of the stricken Costa Concordia liner told a friend a day after the disaster that a man...

Sixteenth body found on Italy cruise shipwreck

The body was found on the third deck where some of the 114,500-tonne vessel`s lifeboats were locat...

Wife of Italian ship captain furious: Report

The wife of the captain said, she was outraged over the way her husband had been portrayed by the me...

Italy: Oil pumping from cruise ship to begin

Salvage experts can begin pumping fuel from a capsized cruise ship as early as tomorrow to avert a ...

Costa Concordia: Divers continue search for missing

Divers were searching for 19 people known missing aboard the capsized Costa Concordia.

Costa Concordia captain `had character problems’

Captain Francesco Schettino is accused of steering the Costa Concordia too close to shore while perf...

Costa Concordia captain trades blame with shipowners

Divers recovered another body from the stricken liner, bringing the known death toll to 13.

Another body found, 13th victim of shipwreck

Italian officials said it was possible that unregistered passengers had been aboard when the Concord...

Search resumes in cruise ship amid rough seas

Divers on Saturday pulled a woman`s body from a corridor near what had been an evacuation staging po...

`Insulting’ 30% discount for cruise ship survivors

Costa Cruises said that the company is trying to do everything they can for those passengers directl...

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