"I don’t know who you think I am, you dragged me in mud. Do I look like a tart?" Domnica Cemortan, the 25-year-old Moldovan on board the Costa Co...

The world turned its attention to Italy once again this week, but for a change it wasn't the country's precarious finances or shady politics making headlines. On 13 January, as its passengers enjoyed dinner and drinks, the cruise ship Costa Concordia made its way past the Tuscan coast, sailing too close to a reef off the island of Giglio as it did so, scraping an ultimately disastrous gash in its side.

As the doomed Costa Concordia began to slide under the water, Captain Schettino argued with with Captain De Falco of the Italian coastguard over wheth...

A heroic purser survived for two days alone on the Costa Concordia after falling through a floor and breaking his leg while rescuing passengers. Ma...

Rescue workers investigating a cruise ship which ran into a reef off the Tuscan coast near the island of Giglio have found five more bodies in the wre...