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The image of the wild and fearsome pirate captain has often captured Hollywood's imagination, but piracy is a very real and increasing problem for modern sea-farers.
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In 2008 alone over 70 ships have been hijacked off the coast of Africa and their newest hostage is a Saudi oil tanker and its crew. Mark Phillips reports.
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CNN's Erica Hill explians why Somali pirates are so successful in hijacking big commercial ships.
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The IT manager for Chevron's Gulf oil platforms and support facilities talks about communications challenges in the face of salt air, lightning strikes, high winds and other weather events.
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Supporters are being offered the chance to join the Brazilian footballer on a new European cruise. Caroline Shearing reports.
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I love to travel. I'm lucky in that I've been to many exotic places, but one that never interested me was New Zealand. For a start, I'm a wuss and it's the home of adventure sport. It's where everyone goes for their first bungee jump or skydive, where they queue up to try river surfing, white water rafting, jet boating, free falling and other high-speed thrills. Hell, I come out in a sweat at the mention of a cable car.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Every presidential election is for the history books. This one is for the ages....
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Animal Planet's new high-fueled adventure reality show is called 'Whale Wars."
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Captain describes attack by machete-wielding pirates
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Women with a strong family history of breast cancer may still have an increased risk of developing the disease even if they test negative for two genetic mutations, Canadian researchers have found.
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THE TWO British hostages on board the hijacked Sirius Star were named by their families last night after another day of drama in the Gulf of Aden which included the Indian navy destroying a pirate "mother ship".
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Pirate ship sinks as international community deals with "out-of-control" piracy.
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NATO has promised to send ships to the Gulf of Aden to work with a planned EU force against pirates off the coast of Somalia. Russia's navy has called for more cooperation from the West, while Germany works out just what its sailors can do.
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Take a look at the National Museum of American History's $85 million renovation.
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It took the original "Pirates of the Caribbean" more than a week to earn $100 million at the box office. It took the pirates of the Somali coast less than a day to seize $100 million worth of crude oil last week. Thar be pirates, indeed.
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Somali pirates are now in control of 16 ships and hundreds of crew members and demanding $17 million for the release of the recently hijacked "Sirius Star." Shelia MacVicar reports.
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The preChristmas price cuts on the high street are the deepest in history according to research which highlights how retailers are resorting to increasingly desperate tactics to woo shoppers.
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Anti-piracy technology steps up to fend off sophisticated maritime hijackers.
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Berlin has released details about a skirmish with pirates last week. A German navy warship opened fire on two speedboats that seemed intent on hijacking a cruise ship. No one was injured, but European navies are busy off the Horn of Africa.
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Stanley Weiss's "The key to the Caucasus" (Views, Dec. 9) extols Azerbaijan's strategic significance. Indeed, oil-rich Azerbaijan is nestled between Russia and Iran and deserves considerable attention from Washington policymakers.
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The Director of Douala based film production house, KM Productions, Ebeneser Mfuh, has admitted that high prices of original CDs in a poverty stricken society like Cameroon encourage piracy.
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Sam Davies who interupted a roundtheworld race to help a stricken rival describes "horrible" moment she heard he was injured.
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Sam Davies greeted Christmas Day by reaching for the CD of carols and donning a suitably festive hat.
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DETROIT (AP) | The Motor City Bowl is where teams put points on the board.
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The odds of suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm go up sharply among people who smoke and have a family history of aneurysms, compared with all other people, a new study suggests.
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Apple is putting an end to anti-piracy software on iTunes, the company announced at Tuesday's Macworld Expo. Marketing vice president Phil Schiller also unveiled Apple's snazzy new MacBook Pro model.
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The Halifax police department is investigating the conduct of one of its officers following a confrontation at Citadel High. Police were called to the school after a student assaulted two teachers. CBC video shows an officer getting into the face of one young student. Both police and the school say the student had nothing to do with the assault. Watch our video and tell us what you think. You'll find it by going to our "Other Stories" tab.
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Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry, making that state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions.
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The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Tavish Scott, said all bets were off in the Glenrothes by-election and claimed his party could repeat their triumph in Dunfermline and West Fife.
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Leaders of many of New York City’s largest companies gathered at the New York Stock Exchange to discuss how they and government officials should respond to the financial crisis.
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Long before Ravensworth Shopping Center, Ravensworth Estates, Ravensworth Elementary School and other places were built in southern Fairfax County, William Fitzhugh's 21,996-acre tobacco plantation, Ravensworth, encompassed three mansions and their support buildings, including two now-joined log homes that stand as a quaint reminder of the colony's largest cash crop.
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It started badly, got rapidly worse and then descended into utter misery as the sellers came out en masse and wreaked stock market havoc
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RCMP in Fort McMurray, Alta., are warning the public about a high-risk adult sex offender.
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He passes for a team-record 418 yards in a victory over Anaheim Servite. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High junior Ryan Kasdorf continued to illustrate Friday night why he is considered one of the most talented junior quarterbacks in the state, completing 27 of 37 passes for a team-record 418 yards and four touchdowns during the Knights' 31-24 victory over Anaheim Servite at Cerritos College.
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The team is loaded with skill-position stars. There's no need to inspect the expense accounts of USC Coach Pete Carroll or UCLA Coach Rick Neuheisel to figure out the epicenter of their recruiting battle over the next two years.
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The subject of episode one of British Style Genius was high-street shopping, a topic about which it is hard to be revelatory. We are all experts in this field. It did, however, include extremely rare, once-in-a-decade footage of Kate Moss talking. It's a bit like when a birdwatcher finally hears the Resplendent Quetzal sing: inevitably there's an anticlimax. You expect a certain hauteur, but she's squeaky and girlish, and, rather touchingly, desperately flirtatious – as if she had nothing to get by on but her charm.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- His backers feeling increasingly confident, Democrat Barack Obama made a slight nod to his Republican rival on Saturday and asked voters to have faith in him as the next president....
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I got my heavy tax bill in the mail from Todd Stroger that calculated my increase months ago. The value of my home has decreased substantially with the economic crisis.
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Oprah Winfrey is allowing "30 Rock" to poke a little fun at her this season. In a sneak peek of the Nov. 6 episode just released by NBC, the daytime queen is seated next to Tina Fey's character on a flight. Fey's character impersonates Oprah's exaggerated way of introducing guests on her show and also takes a whiff of the fabulous one when her back is turned.
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The United States has slipped in the world’s eyes in this millennium, but in the world’s most popular sport, the United States has actually moved up a notch or two.
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