Costa Concordia

Francesco Schettino, accused by survivors, politicians and the media of dereliction of duty after the 2012 shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner under his command killed 32, testified in his own defense for the first time Tuesday, defiant and gesticulating under questioning from Italian prosecutors.

The last victim of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, namely the Indian waiter Russel Rebello, was finally found on the wreck during the dismantling operation in the port of Genoa on Nov. 3.

The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that hit rocks off the Italian coast and capsized Jan. 13 appeared in court for the first time on Monday. Thirty-two people died in the disaster.

Some of the passengers on the incapacitated Costa Allegra cruise ship will be able to fly home soon after the vessel reaches land.

The adrift cruise ship that lost power near the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean will have a longer route than previously expected.

An Italian court on Tuesday ruled that the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that crashed last month and killed 17 people must remain under house arrest.

Prosecutors in France announced on Thursday that they will begin an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash of the Costa Concordia.

Italian rescue divers said on Tuesday they have stopped searching for bodies in the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship after underwater conditions worsened.

Rescue divers suspended their search of the Costa Concordia on Sunday.

Salvage crews will begin Wednesday pumping thousands of tons of oil from the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which lies half-submerged on its side in Giglio Porto, Italy.

Italian rescue workers suspended operations trying to find the remaining missing people from the Costa Concordia cruise ship that crashed into rocks last Friday.