The Associated Press: US Navy says crew on hijacked ship off Somalia OK

" NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The crew on a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry appear to be in good health, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said Monday. Lt. Stephanie Murdock, a 5th Fleet spokeswoman in Bahrain, said American officials are in regular...

Four People Killed In Jet Crash

I just found this story about the Blink 182 drummer and another musician getting injured in that recent airplane accident.  I was unaware that 4 people were killed.  There was a loud noise.  I wonder if it was terrorists?"Four people were recently killed in a...

Somali pirates free hijacked Malaysian tanker

International vessle passing through Somali waters are always scared as the the Pirates operating there are most notorious and organised sea criminals. They keep on taking hostage ships time to time. Recently they...

Turkish Royal Carribbean Employee Arrested For Rape

"According to reports by cruise ship rape lawyers, a crew member aboard a cruise ship has been arrested near Juneau Alaska after allegedly sexually assaulting another crew member. The crew member who was assaulted...

Vladimir Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger's jaws

Not many people knows that former Russian President has been trained as Commando and has even worked as a spy for the Russian spy agency KGB. He showed a heroic face during his visit to Ussuri reserve in Siberia. He...

Pirates hijack another vessel, Sept-19

Pirates in war with France already, reach out for new vessels to conquer. At the moment they hold 150 hostages, to release by money paymants. Situation similar to Farc Colombia. " NAIROBI: Pirates seized another ship...

NASA could be closed for more than a week

"Damage assessments from Hurricane Ike at NASA's Johnson Space Center continued on Sunday, and a space agency spokesman said it could be late this week or sometime next week before the facility is ready to reopen for normal operations. Johnson, which employees 16,500,...

Sailing Ship Asgard II sinks off French coast

"The sail training vessel Asgard II has sunk 20 miles off the coast of France in the Bay of Biscay. The ship was lost at 8.25am local time (7.25am Irish time) 20 nautical miles from the French coast, southwest of...

JetBlue flight diverted after fight breaks out

A JetBlue flight was diverted from Boston Massachusetts to Fort Lauderdale, Florida earlier today after a fight broke out between two people after someone was caught smoking in the bathroom."One passenger aboard...

Coast Guard helicopter crashes in Hawaii, 3 dead

Three are confirmed dead, and another is missing, after a Coast Guard helicopter crashed off the coast of Hawaii Thursday night." Spokesman Lt. John Titchen says the search continues Friday for the...

Brothers admit stealing parts from 244 corpses

"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Two brothers who ran a funeral home and crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts, a macabre scheme that left families aghast and unclear about the fate of their loved ones. Louis and...

Malaysian Tanker Hijacked In Gulf Of Aden

Did you think that pirates had died off with the age of sail? Think again. Just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, pirates have hijacker a tanker and its 41 crew members. The tanker is owned by MISC Berhard...

Madrid air crash stewardess survived by 'switching seats'

" Antonia Martinez Jimenez, 27, has told relatives that she normally sat at the back of the plane during take-off and landing, but on the ill-fated flight to Gran Canaria last Wednesday she was rostered to sit...

A Sri Lanka Rice Cargo Ship Sinks Near Chittagong Harbor – 16 Crew Men Resc...

"A Sri Lankan cargo vessel carrying 3609 tons of rice was sunk off Banglades’s Chiitagong harbor after colliding with a Panamanian empty tanker , the harbor authorities said. Radio Controller of Chittagong Port Authoritiy,Wahidur Rahman said, “After receiving an SOS from...

Pilot reported faulty valve before Madrid plane crash

(Click here to see our coverage from yesterday.)It has been revealed today that the pilots of the plane the crashed in Madrid yesterday, killing around 153 people, had reported a faulty valve on board the aircraft as...

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