COAST GUARD

The Costa Allegra fire -- which has stranded 1,000 in the Indian Ocean near Seychelles -- threatens to hurt a cruise ship industry that is already suffering from the Costa Concordia catastrophe.

Just one month after Costa Concordia smashed into a reef and capsized, the Italian cruise company, Costa Crociere SpA faces a new emergency with Cruise Line Allegra stranded without power in pirate infested waters.

The Costa Allegra cruise ship has been reached by the French fishing ship Travignon is being towed the Allegra toward the Seychelles' main islands.

The Costa Allegra is adrift off the coast of Seychelles after a fire erupted in the electrical room. The incident comes just weeks after another Costa Crociere ship, the Costa Concordia, ran aground off the Italian coast killing at least 25.

Italian cruise ship the Costa Allegra is adrift without engine power off the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

A cruise ship owned by Costa is reportedly adrift off the Seychelles in the Indian ocean following a fire on board.

Italy has been fined by a European court for violating the human rights of African migrants.

Japanese conglomerate Mitsui MOEX Offshore will pay $90 million for the BP Gulf Oil Spill of 2010 in what is the first settlement ahead of the liabilities trial expected to start in 10 days.

Forget the roses, eCards and love quotes, say Happy Valentine's Day at a sewage treatment plant for a Feb. 14 you will never forget.

Offshore drilling for oil has begun in Cuban waters in the shadow of the Florida Keys, and with the memory of BP's Macondo Gulf of Mexico spill still fresh, authorities are bracing for the worst.

Officials are gravely concerned about the final death toll, considering the unknown number of people missing

A Cambodia-flagged cargo ship, carrying scrap metal, sank in the stormy waters of Turkey's Black Sea port of Zonguldak Tuesday. The ship was sailing from Russia to the Turkish Aegean port of Aliaga, officials said.

The 26-foot Queen Bee (a.k.a. the Nantucket ghost boat) surfaced off the coast of Spain this week after traveling nearly 3,500 nautical miles away from home over three years.

Divers have pulled a woman's body from the sinking cruise ship, Costa Concordia, on Sunday, raising the number of dead to 13. The cruise ship ran aground on Jan. 13 off the Tuscan island of Giglio.

Italian Coast Guard divers battling the elements including light fuel seeping into the water have found a woman's body in a corridor of a sunken section of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. The woman's body, one of the 21 still missing, was found Saturday. Italian Coast Guard divers found the woman wearing a life jacket in a narrow corridor near an evacuation staging point at the ship's rear, according to The Associated Press.

With his cruise ship sinking, the captain wanted food, said a cook from the ship in an interview with a Filipino television station on Thursday. Cook Rogelio Barista told the GMA Network that Schettino ordered the dinner amid the deadly chaos that killed at least 11 people with some 21 still missing.

More than 20 people still remain missing Thursday following the Costa Concordia disaster. Take a closer look at the faces of the missing people, victims and survivors with these photos.

Francesco Schettino, in a move that has sparked outrage from survivors and fellow mariners, told Italian investigators that he tripped into one of the lifeboats while aiding in the Concordia's evacuation, insisting he left the sinking cruise ship purely by accident. Schettino did admit full responsibility for causing the crash, but for families of the dead, his excuses are far from enough.

A new audiotape released Thursday, details the first contact between the Costa Concordia, the Italian cruise ship that ran aground by the Tuscan island of Giglio, and the port of Livorno, the Associated Press reported. On the tape, Capt. Francesco Schettino is heard telling the port that the Costa Concordia was only suffering from a blackout - 30 minutes after his ship hit a reef.

Inside the Costa Concordia, rescue divers have restarted their search for the 21 people still missing on Thursday, but a forecast for rough seas means they'll need to work fast.

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship, is in police custody and for good reason. He went against the maritime protocol and endangered the lives of the 4,200 people on board the ship when it went down.