The fatal grounding of the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast has sharpened the focus on the largely unchecked boom of these ever-larger luxury liners, and nowhere more so than in Venice.

When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — “a sea of pink” traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich.

Princess Cruises has announced delayed embarkation times for the next sailings of Crown Princess and Ruby Princess, following an increased number of suspected Norovirus cases on each of the ships’ current voyages.

Police in the Cayman Islands say a 47-year-old U.S. tourist has died while scuba diving off popular North West Point in Grand Cayman.

The Federal Air Marshal program is rife with acrimony between supervisors and air marshals, creating a climate of “tension, mistrust, and dislike,” according to a report due to be released next week.

Hungary’s national carrier ceased operations, grounded all its flights and stranded more than 7,000 passengers Friday, blaming what it called an “unsustainable” financial situation.

A United Airlines plane turned around and landed safely at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after reportedly striking a bird during takeoff on Thursday, NBC Chicago reports.

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, thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.

A Transportation Security Administration agent is accused of taking $5,000 in cash from a passenger’s jacket as it moved along the security checkpoint conveyor belt at JFK International Airport on the evening of Feb. 1.

The size of the government’s secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the United States has more than doubled in the past year, The AP has learned.