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The Spirit of Tasmania, which ferries people between Melbourne and Devonport, Tasmania broke free from its mooring during a severe thunderstorm Wednesday. People reported hearing a loud crack, as the ship collided with the pier and then drifted toward the shore.

A branch of US Homeland Security busted a cocaine smuggling operation in New Orleans last Sunday. Five men, including three crew members were arrested on felony charges when the Norwegian Dawn arrived from the Roatan cruise port in Honduras.

Attackers set off explosions at a Starbucks cafe in a bustling shopping area in Indonesia's capital and waged gunbattles with police Thursday, leaving bodies in the streets as office workers watched in terror from high-rise buildings.

It’s the kind of business niche that someone like Breaking Bad’s wonderfully cheesy lawyer Saul Goodman (now with his own show, Better Call Saul) might have dreamed up: It has ambulance chaser written all over it and it’s something of which anyone travelling by air in or from Europe should be aware.

The killing of a Montana man by a Yellowstone National Park grizzly bear highlights the need for hikers in the region to travel in groups, carry Mace-like bear spray and take other precautions against attacks, investigators said Wednesday.

Germany's foreign minister says his country won't make any further immediate changes to its travel advice for Turkey but could do so in light of the investigation into Tuesday's Istanbul bombing.

With the blood and bullets now swept away, the Carillon cafe reopened its doors Wednesday for the first time since it was among the Paris sites targeted by Islamic extremists in November.

Canada's new security system for scrutinizing people who arrive by airplane singled out more than 2,300 passengers for closer examination during a recent three-month period, the federal border agency says.

Turkish police on Wednesday arrested 13 suspected Islamic State militants, including three Russian nationals, a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 foreigners - most of them German tourists - in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district. T

The Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong developed new guidelines that took effect 01 January in a measure to protect inbound tourists. The rules for the refund protection scheme became tighter and retailers were told that violating the law would result in their licenses being revoked.

In anticipation of the 2020 Olympics, Japan’s survey and mapping agency has come up with new, more appropriate, symbols for their foreign language maps. The new set of symbols are meant to be clearer and less offensive than the ones they are replacing and to be sure of consensus, the agency polled over a thousand people for feedback.