Two crew members on an Albanian tugboat have died during the operation to secure the fire-hit Greek ferry from which hundreds of people were rescued and 10 people died, Albanian authorities said.

The captain of the sunken Sea Diamond cruise ship blamed currents off a Greek island for last week’s accident, state-run television reported today.

The captain of a cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea has been charged with negligence.

A Greek prosecutor today pressed negligence charges against the captain and five officers of a cruise ship that sank off an Aegean Sea island, state television reported.

Navy divers are searching the sunken wreckage of a cruise ship for the bodies of a Frenchman and his daughter, missing after the vessel foundered on a volcanic reef in Greece.