Argentina's president has said an international search will continue for a submarine carrying 44 crew members that has been lost in the South Atlantic for nine days and the vessel's disappearance will be investigated.

All 44 crew members on a missing Argentinian submarine are feared dead after the navy announced a sound thought to be an explosion had been detected.

Five Irish passengers on board an Antarctic cruise ship trapped in ice were tonight preparing to be evacuated to safety.

THE death has occurred of the maritime historian and anti-nuclear activist John de Courcy Ireland following a long illness. He was 94 years old.

THREE Argentine women are to travel almost 11,000 kilometres (as the crow flies) to be in Waterford for the start of the Tall Ships Races and will set sail on the massive Russian tall ship, Mir, from Ireland to Cherbourg-Octeville in France on July 9.