A young German woman was snorkeling about 50 yards offshore at Palauea Beach on South Maui when she was critically injured in a shark attack. The 20-year-old woman was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center and was listed in critical condition.
A ferry with nearly 700 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Friday after colliding with a cargo vessel, killing at least 17 people, the Associated Press reported. MV Thomas Aquinas, the captain of the ferry, ordered the ship abandoned after it began listing and then sank once it hit the vessel.
60-year-old Romanian Princess Irina Walker and her husband John Wesley Walker, a former sheriff's deputy, were arrested by federal agents in Eastern Oregon on Thursday in connection with an alleged cockfighting ring.
A Brazilian court on Wednesday convicted three men for the rape of an American tourist in Rio de Janeiro from March this year.
