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.
Very cool penguin jumps into boat to escape orcas. Video
Excerpt: Two fishermen are miraculously alive after spending 25 terrifying days floating in shark-infested waters in a large cooler. The Burmese men told rescuers they had clambered into the 5- by 4-foot icebox when their fishing boat broke up 230 miles north of Australia.
"Israel wisely decided not to allow the Free Gaza publicity hounds to arrive in a war zone.
It might look like something out of a James Bond film but this is could be the ocean cruiser of the future. The WAM-V, or Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel, blasts along on two giant inflatable tubes which, according to its designers, let it 'dance' with the waves. Powered by twin d …
The report underscores major difficulties in bringing assistance to people affected by conflict.
A Russian anti-submarine destroyer and two logistical warships are entering waters off Cuba in a nonmilitary visit that's the first of its kind since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Words cannot convey the feeling of being surrounded by a vista such as this.
The head of U.S. military operations in Africa...U.S. Army Gen. William "Kip" Ward said the chaos on the high seas is a reflection of the country's political chaos. Ward, said: "I think that's a concern that we all would have."
Peter Swift, head of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) suggested that warships could begin monitoring vessels leaving Somali waters, rather than attempting to patrol the entire Gulf of Aden and a significant part of the Indian Ocean.
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Ex-Somali Army Colonel Mohamed Nureh Abdulle lives in Harardhere - the town closest to where the hijacked Saudi oil tanker, Sirius Star is moored.
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An Indian naval vessel sank a suspected pirate ''mother ship'' in the Gulf of Aden and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said Wednesday, yet more violence in the lawless seas where brigands are becoming bolder and more violent. More Articles
Pirates in the Arabian Sea have hijacked a Saudi-owned oil tanker with 25 crew aboard, the U.S. Navy and the British Foreign Office confirmed on Monday. More Articles
A MISCHIEVOUS mink that "eats" cabin cruisers is being hunted at a posh marina.
A super-yacht which was built for Saddam Hussein is on sale for £17 million. The floating palace, originally named Qadissiyat Saddam, after a famous Arab victory over the Persians in 637 AD, was made by Danish shipbuilders in 1981. The yacht was meant to be the sister ship of …
A man has carved out a giant pumpkin and is paddling it 150 miles down the Wisconsin River.
At least 52 Somalis have died when the boat smuggling them across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen broke down and they were left adrift with no food or water for 18 days, United Nations has said.
A major air and sea search was launched after a mystery 'Marie Celeste' yacht with no-one on board sailed into a harbour.
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Berlin police are investigating an incident near Görlitzer Bridge in the city's Kreuzberg district after a passenger boat narrowly avoided a a cable that was strung across the canal, daily Der Tagesspiegel reported on Monday.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991. Pirates there are trained fighters, often dressed in military fatigues and typically armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank rockets launchers and various types of grenades. More Articles