indian ocean

Maybe it's time for Carnival to beach its Costa brand. The cruise line suffered another ugly mishap this week when a fire aboard the Costa Allegra left the ship powerless on the Indian Ocean, stranding passengers for three days with no hot food, air conditioning or running water.

On Tuesday, a Yemeni Airbus 310 passenger plane traveling from Sanaa, Yemen's capital, crashed as it neared an airstrip at Moroni, the capital of the Comoros Islands. Of 153 people on board, a single survivor has been found. It's been a bad month for Airbus. The Air France plane that mysteriously...