Two Iraqis are charged with aggravated rape of a woman on board a Finnish ferry. The act is said to have been particularly reckless – among other things, according to the indictment, the duo inserted a beer can into the woman’s abdomen. It was according to the indictment in September that the men assaulted the woman in a cabin on Viking Line’s ferry – and brutally gang-raped... 

The death toll from a crowded ferry capsizing in Lake Victoria rises sharply to 207, as rescue workers find a lucky survivor. Although hopes were fading of finding any more survivors by day three of the search effort, workers rescued an engineer who had managed to locate a pocket of air in the vessel. The president declared four days of national mourning and said the government would cover the funeral... 

South Korean rescue teams and divers still struggle to gain access to blocked cabins of the ferry that capsized three weeks ago. Six more bodies were recovered early Sunday, 18 days after the 6,825-ton passenger ferry, Sewol, capsized and sank with 476 people on board while 60 passengers are still unaccounted for. So far, 242 bodies have been recovered from the submersed vessel. One body was reportedly... 

South Korean authorities have arrested the captain of a ferry which sank two days ago with more than 470 people onboard. Lee Joon-seok arrived in court late on Friday to face a prosecutor’s request for his formal arrest. The captain faces several charges, including negligence of duty and violation of maritime law. Official reports say an inexperienced crew member may have been at the ship’s... 

An overcrowded passenger ferry in India. At least 105 people have been confirmed dead and another 100 are missing after an overcrowded ferry split in half and sunk in northeastern India. The passenger ferry sunk on Monday during a storm in the Brahmaputra River in the country’s Assam state, AFP reported. “There were about 350 people on board when a storm split the steamer into two,” Assam...