Eight people died in the early hours of Saturday after a cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast, media reports said.The 290-meter-long, 1,500-cabin Costa Concordia liner was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it hit a reef near the Giglio island at around 8 pm local time (19:00 GMT), ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel battened down the hatches at its main airport on Thursday, awaiting hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists as Greece blocked the last boat in a scuppered campaign to ship aid to the Gaza Strip. Organisers of the "Welcome to Palestine" campaign, which some have called the ...