Costa Concordia

The Italian cruise ship captain who wrecked the ship and then fled while many of the passengers and crew were still on board has been convicted of multiple counts of manslaughter. Italian court officials say Francesco Schettino was sentenced to 16 years behind bars...

The wreck of the Costa Concordia was successful re floated on Monday  in preparation for it to be towed away to be scrapped for metal, 30 months after it hit a reef and capsized off the Italian coast, killing 32 people. The heavily listing ship had been dragged upright last September, and now that it's been re floated, towing is set to begin July 21st to bring it to Genoa for scrapping, a trip tha