Cruise lines, navigating a dreadful economy and tight-fisted consumers, are rolling out a bounty of bargain fares to fill their ships. With many deals matching the sort of deep discounting the industry resorted to in the wake of the Sept. 11 ...

Pirates Chase, Fire on US Cruise Ship - AOL

NAIROBI, Kenya (Dec. 2) - The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist. But the six bandits, riding in two skiffs and firing rifle ...

Pirates Chase But Can't Catch U.S. Oceanliner - The Ledger

The liner, carrying 656 international passengers and 399 crew members, was sailing through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday when it encountered six bandits in two speedboats, said Noel Choong who heads the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting ...

EU Flotilla to Launch Anti-Piracy Mission Off Somalia - Deutsche Welle

"We have a responsibility to escort, deter and protect, and it will be done with very robust rules of engagement," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday, Dec. 3, ahead of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at the alliance's ...

Rice charms with Brahms - New Zealand Herald

LONDON - United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performed in a piano quintet for the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Rice played Brahms' Op 34 with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband's wife, Louise, on violin, and three members of the ...