Myanmar police said Tuesday they have brought charges punishable by a long jail term against the captain of an overloaded river ferry that sank last month, killing dozens of people.
At least 13 people were killed on Sunday when a boat crowded with passengers sank on Thailand's Chao Phraya river after hitting a bridge, an emergency response official said.
At least four people have died and a desperate effort was underway on Friday to find hundreds more believed missing after a migrant boat capsized off the Greek island of Crete, the coastguard said.
Czech archaeologists have unearthed an ancient funerary boat near the Abusir pyramids south of Cairo, officials said yesterday, in a discovery that could shed light on shipbuilding in ancient Egypt.
