An Italian prosecutor’s request to jail Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Carnival Corp. ship that ran aground off Italy, was rejected by a court in Florence today. He will remain under house arrest pending the outcome of the investigation, according to a statement by his lawyer Bruno Leporatti. Schettino was placed under house arrest [...]
Herbert Greszuk was at the bar on the fifth deck of the Costa Concordia when the ill-fated luxury liner hit a reef. Unable to get back to his second-deck cabin after the emergency signal came, he made it to a lifeboat with only the clothes on his back — leaving behind everything he had with [...]
Irvine residents are traveling across the globe, visiting locations such as Paris, Russia and Italy. Click on the slideshow to see their vacation photos. To participate, take a photo of yourself with a copy of the Irvine World News while on your next trip, and send it (in jpeg format) to City Editor Theresa Cisneros [...]
ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Hilton Grand Vacations, the renowned Hilton Worldwide vacation ownership brand, is celebrating two decades of industry leadership with a year of special events beginning in February. Twenty years ago, in February 1992, a joint venture between Hilton Hotels Corporation and Grand Vacations, Limited established Hilton’s entry into the vacation ownership market, launching [...]
ROME (AP) — In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master. Now, a veritable treasure lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the [...]
By WEEK Producer AAA offers tips for cruise passengers February 1, 2012 Updated Feb 1, 2012 at 10:31 AM CST AURORA, Ill. — The disaster of the Costa Concordia in Italy has sparked major debate recently concerning the safety of the cruise industry. Despite the tragedy, however, AAA experts forecast that 17 million passengers will embark [...]
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