Italian authorities are hoping mystery woman Domnica Cemortan can shed some light on the Italian cruise ship sinking
Amir Khan
Jan 20, 2012
What is the smartest city of them all?
Mark Johanson
Jan 19, 2012
Italian authorities want to interview Domnica Cemortan, who was seeing dining with Costa Concordia Capt. Francesco Schettino, just before the Italian cruise ship ran aground.
Amir Khan
Jan 19, 2012
Hitler's Lair -- or the Wolf's Lair as it is know -- is to become Poland's next big tourist attraction as the Polish Forestry Commission looks for a buyer.
Mark Johanson
Jan 19, 2012
Poland has put Adolf Hitler's Wolf Lair up for rent in hopes of turning the Fuhrer's retreat into a tourist attraction.
Julia Greenberg
Jan 18, 2012
Images of the Costa Concordia cruise ship sinking off the West Coast of Italy have been splashed across the global media and as the death toll rises into double digits, the question of cruise ship safety is likely on the minds of many.
Mark Johanson
Jan 18, 2012
Is it too soon for Joplin, Mo. to have a tourist map of the tornado's destruction?
Mark Johanson
Jan 18, 2012
Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that is sinking off Italy's west coast, is facing 15 years in prison on charges of manslaughter, abandoning ship and causing a shipwreck.
Laura Matthews
Jan 18, 2012
While the Spanish have bullfights, the Italians cockfights, and the English go hunting with hounds, the Turks have camel wrestling.
Carey Vanderborg
Jan 18, 2012
Five foreigners were killed by gunmen in an attack on tourists in the remote Afar region of northern Ethiopia.
Mark Johanson
Jan 18, 2012
Rescue workers Wednesday halted their search for the missing passengers of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized Friday off the west coast of Italy after the position of the ship moved, said the Italian coast guard.
Ankita Mehta
Jan 18, 2012
Rescuers Tuesday pulled five more bodies from the wreckage of the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that ran aground near the west coast of Italy, while Francesco Schettino, captain of the ship, was placed under house arrest.
Ankita Mehta
Jan 18, 2012
North Dakota's Director of Tourism Sara Otte Coleman said she was shocked that people found their latest Legendary ad too racy.
Mark Johanson
Jan 17, 2012
A British Airways flight erroneously told passengers that they were going to make an emergency water landing, when they were actually cruising safely at 35,000 feet.
Amir Khan
Jan 17, 2012
The Costa Concordia cruise ship was featured in Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme. The film was released on DVD three days before the crash.
Mark Johanson
Jan 17, 2012
The captain of the Costa Concordia, the sinking cruise ship that ran aground in Italy on Friday, was ordered by Italian coast guard to return to his ship and coordinate the rescue operation. Listen to the audio here.
Laura Matthews
Jan 17, 2012
Rescuers on Tuesday, found five more bodies on the Costa Concordia, the Italian ship that is still submerged after running aground on Friday. The death toll is reportedly now 11.
Laura Matthews
Jan 17, 2012
More than 70 passengers who were on the Costa Concordia, the Italian cruise ship that is sinking after running aground in Italy, joined a class action lawsuit against its owner, according to reports. The captain of the ship Francesco Schettino remains in custody.
Laura Matthews
Jan 17, 2012
The flagship hotel of Radisson Blu Hotels & Resorts in Russia, a part of The Rezidor Hotel Group, has been voted the leading luxury business hotel in the world.
Sanskrity Sinha
Jan 17, 2012
The Costa Concordia, the Italian luxury cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast at Giglio island, is almost submerged in the Mediterranean Sea.
Aditi Mathur
Jan 17, 2012
Several industry officials worry that the sinking cruise ship Costa Concordia, the biggest of the Costa Crociere fleet, will slow the growth of super cruisers in favor of smaller vessels where managing passengers on board is simpler.
Mark Johanson
Jan 16, 2012
Rescuers resumed a search of the hulk of a giant cruise liner off the west coast of Italy on Monday after bad weather forced them to halt operations, but hopes were fading of finding more survivors.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 16, 2012
Captain of the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia that capsized leaving 5 people dead, 42 others injured, and 17 still unaccounted for, has been accused of showing off when he maneuvered the ship dangerously close to the shore for the entertainment of the tourists on the island.
Amrutha Gayathri
Jan 16, 2012
Divers found the bodies of two elderly men inside a capsized cruiseliner on Sunday, raising to five the death toll after the luxury vessel foundered and dramatically keeled over off Italy's coast.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 15, 2012
We're presuming now that some of the people we met on the boat didn't make it. As the Costa Concordia, one of a line of luxury Italian cruise ships, sank into the Mediterranean, Seamus and Carol Moore prepared for the possibility that they would die. Read their harrowing story of the sinking of the Costa Concordia, which many are already comparing to the sinking of the Titanic, here.
Melanie Jones
Jan 15, 2012
The death toll from the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that ran aground Friday off the Italian coast, has risen to five after scuba divers found two more bodies on board the luxury liner.
Laura Matthews
Jan 15, 2012
A South Korean honeymoon couple and an injured crew member were plucked from the partially submerged Costa Concordia shipwreck on Sunday, more than a day after the cruise ship met its doom close to Italy's Isola del Giglio, as rescue workers struggled to find any others still trapped on board.
J.J. McGrath
Jan 15, 2012
An amateur video shot by a passenger in the ill- fated Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia that ran aground on Friday shows the shocked passengers escaping. The raw video in YouTube was shot from the sinking ship after the disaster and shows the rescue operations.
The divers located South Korean Couple from a cabin two decks down and another person a crew of the ship in Sunday morning. Divers are continuing their search for the missing people in the ship according to a CNN report.
Sreeja VN
Jan 15, 2012
The captain of the Costa Concordia, the luxury Italian cruise ship that ran aground off Tuscany on Friday, killing at least three people, was arrested on Saturday, according to reports.
Laura Matthews
Jan 14, 2012
Police on Saturday said that the captain of the Costa Cruises Italian cruise liner, which ran aground off Italy, has been arrested on suspicion of multiple manslaughter charges, as well as being charged with causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Reuters reported. Francesco Schettino, the captain of the 4,200-passenger luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, was taken to a jail in the provincial capital Grosseto in order to await questioning by a magistrate
Laura Matthews
Jan 14, 2012