A ferry boat sank Sunday after colliding with a larger ferry on a river in eastern Bangladesh, killing 10 women and children, police said.
Russian authorities on Saturday released all 10 Japanese crew members seized aboard a fishing boat in late January after allegedly straying into Russian waters, Japanese officials said.
U.N. officials were allowed to meet Thursday with boat people detained by Thailand and interviewed a dozen migrants as young as 14 about their perilous journey and allegations they were abused.
A group of 62 barefoot, disheveled Rohingya migrants facing illegal entry charges in a Thai court Wednesday pleaded not to be sent back to Myanmar where they said they were beaten, whipped and warned not to return by soldiers.
Tokyo has asked the Russian coast guard to promptly release 10 Japanese crew members seized aboard their fishing boat while off Japan's northern coast, the top government spokesman said Wednesday.
A boat carrying up to 35 Tunisians trying to travel illegally to Italy capsized Monday near Tunis after hitting a rock, officials said.
The two people killed in a Chesapeake Bay boating accident off Virginia Beach on Wednesday have been identified as Arizona residents, police said.
A local official in Guinea-Bissau says at least 71 people were on board a wooden canoe that capsized on a river in strong winds.
An overcrowded boat carrying mostly women and children capsized in a river in eastern Nepal on Sunday, killing two people and leaving dozens missing.
The Coast Guard says the bodies of two fishermen have been found after their trawler sank in the waters off Gloucester.
A boat carrying international peace activists and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip was turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy on Tuesday, Israel and organizers of the trip said.
A well-preserved ancient wooden dugout canoe has been discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea, scientists said Saturday.
A tattooed Italian trucker, middle-aged twin sisters from San Jose, Calif., a polite Scottish couple and a solemn-faced Greek hailed a cab in Gaza City, drawing stares from passers-by unused to visitors.
A maritime official says pirates have hijacked a Thai fishing boat with 16 crew members off the coast of Somalia — the eighth ship seized in the area in the past two weeks.
A man who drunkenly drove his high-speed powerboat over a smaller boat in a nighttime crash that killed two people was sent to prison Wednesday for 3 1/2 years.
The U.N. refugee agency says more than 600 African migrants died or disappeared this year trying to cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia in smugglers' boats.
Authorities say a jet boat that was spotted zipping across a Michigan river smashed into a dock, killing three people and seriously injuring a fourth.
Rescuers were searching Saturday for a missing 2-year-old boy after a packed ferry caught fire and sank in eastern Indonesia, killing at least eight people, an official said.
Wayne Pritchard's itinerary for his intercontinental boating adventure might stoke envy — 13 days near Ottawa, a long weekend docked in Havana. The only trouble is that both locales are in Illinois.
A harrowing boat journey across the Mediterranean left some 70 African migrants missing after rough seas capsized the craft, the U.N. refugee agency said Thursday, calling on Malta to release the eight survivors from detention.
A couple watched helplessly as their 4-year-old son was trapped alone on a runaway boat as it spun in circles on Lake Michigan for nearly 45 minutes.
A police official says a boat carrying people home from work capsized overnight in northern India killing 13 people.
A vintage World War II landing craft was hauled across a coastal North Carolina town Wednesday and is set to be restored and preserved — one of only about a dozen of its kind believed to be left.
A man who died after a boat overturned in a Hudson River marsh helped save his fellow passengers by making 911 calls from his cell phone while they were trapped beneath the hull.
At least 47 people died when a motorized boat sank on a river in Congo, and more than 100 people are missing, a district official said Friday.