Ferry Disaster: Transcripts of conversation between the sinking South Korean Ferry and the Vessel Traffic Center reveal confusion about whether to send passengers into the water. An unidentified crewmember asks, “If this ferry evacuates passengers, will you be able to …

Ferry Disaster: As hopes dim for finding survivors of the sunken South Korean ferry, the ship’s captain and two crewmembers were arrested. One of them was the third mate who was steering the ship through a treacherous stretch for the …

Ukraine: An agreement to cool the Ukraine crisis, including the withdrawal of armed protesters occupying government buildings, has been reached between the US, Russia, Ukraine and European countries. A joint statement says, “All illegal armed groups must be disarmed; all …

Ukraine: In the biggest firefight so far, Ukrainian forces killed three pro-Russian protesters, wounded 13 and captured 63 in the eastern city of Mariupol. The government said the separatists tried to storm a base occupied by the Ukrainian National Guard. …

Ferry Disaster: A ferry carrying 462 people, mostly high school students on an overnight passage to a tourist island, sank off South Korea this morning and 280 of the passengers are now missing.  Video showed passengers clinging to the rails …

370: The surface search for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Flight 370 has been called off. The ships and aircraft involved have returned to base and a slow undersea search started yesterday. But the robotic submarine Bluefin had to perform …

Search: Searchers in the Southern Indian Ocean are preparing to launch a robotic submersible to look for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Flight 370. They’re hunting about 1,000 miles of the coast of Perth, Australia, where search ships last heard …

Ukraine: Ukrainian officials say an “anti-terrorist” operation is underway to take back buildings occupied by pro-Russian militants in Eastern Ukraine. One Ukrainian security officer was killed today in a gun battle with militants in the eastern city of Sloviansk. One …

Fight 370: No new sounds have been heard since Tuesday in the search for the missing Malaysian airlines plane.  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said, “Given that the signal from the black box is rapidly fading, what we are now …

Bus Crash: Ten people died yesterday 100 miles north of Sacramento in an accident involving a bus carrying Los Angeles high school students on a college tour. Police say a FedEx tractor trailer crossed the center divide and smashed into …