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In a bid to raise much-needed funds for its struggling economy, the Italian government is auctioning off more than a dozen picturesque lighthouses off the coast of Sardinia.

The Navy began assessing the damage of the USS Essex after it collided with a refueling tanker, USNS Yukon, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Early reports indicate that the Essex experienced technical difficulties with its steering.

Chinese fishermen are finding themselves at the center of foreign policy disputes between their country and many others across the region. Even friends like North Korea seem to have it out for Chinese fishing vessels.

The naval standoff between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea has the two countries on the brink of conflict, but a demonstration in Manila against China has been sparsely attended, offering hope that an escalation can be avoided.

Sales of smartphones and tablets are skyrocketing but consumers report they don?t necessarily trust online or mobiles services to be secure, a new survey found.

An American yacht that was destroyed as it raced from California to Mexico might have ended up on the shore of an island just outside the border of the two nations, according to the ship's GPS. This revelation potentially discredits the theory that it was wrecked by a large ship in the area as the Coast Guard continues to investigate the debris.

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In a joint military exercise, nearly 7,000 U.S. and Philippine troops staged combat maneuvers in the disputed South China Sea region.

As the Chinese-Filipino dispute over Scarborough Shoal enters its third week, tensions between the two countries show no signs of dissipating. The Philippines is urging other South China Sea countries for their support against what it sees as Chinese aggression.

A top military publication in China has warned that the US may be risking an armed confrontation by undertaking a joint military exercise with the Philippines amid maritime tensions between Manila and Beijing over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

After one of its ships passed a stranded fishing boat without offering assistance on March 10, Princess Cruises, a Carnival operated company, released a statement on Thursday, claiming there was a miscommunication. Two fisherman aboard the boat died as their only life line sailed away.

On Thursday a plane flying across the Gulf of Mexico crashed into the ocean after being unresponsive to radio calls for hours. The pilot was the only person onboard the Cessna, and had been monitored by two F-15 aviators while the plane circled above the Gulf.

The Coast Guard said a small, private plane, a Cessna 421C, sunk into the Gulf of Mexico. Crews flying over the site of the crash gave did not see any indication that the pilot survived.

China and the Philippines took one step further on Wednesday in their ongoing military face-off over the Scarborough Reef, known by the Chinese as Huangyan Island and by the Filipino as Panatag Shoal.

Shintaro Ishihara may not be a household name in the United States. But in East Asia, he is often at the center of international controversy because of nationalistic-themed statements that regularly infuriate China and South Korea -- and on Monday, he did it again.

China and Philippines have said they won't escalate maritime tensions between the two nations over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, though both appeared eager to assert their claims over the waters.

The search and rescue for four yacht crew members who were racing around the Farallon Islands off Northern California during the Full Crew Farallones Race, has been suspended indefinitely by the Coast Guard.

A naval standoff in the South China Sea is pitting the Philippines against China, and is highlighting how a growing Chinese military presence in the region may create tension in a resource-rich area.

A ghost ship that has been adrift since the tsunami struck Japan last year, has been shot up and sunken by U.S. Coast Guard cannon fire.

A US Coast Guard cutter used cannon fire Thursday to sink a Japanese fishing vessel that got washed out to sea by the March 11 tsunami. The Ryou-Un Maru was sunken 180 miles west of the US and Canadian borders off Southeast Alaskan coast.

Be assured that if a town near you had anything at all to do with the RMS Titanic, its passengers, or its crew, it will celebrate the 100th anniversary this April in a big way.