A ferry packed with about 300 people has collided with a cargo boat and capsized in a Bangladeshi river, killing 31 people and leaving up to 200 more missing.

IT’S little wonder that Mary Harney has disappeared from public discourse.

Detectives were given more time today to question three men over Europe’s largest ever seizure of smuggled cigarettes.

A merchant ship carrying tanks and other heavy weapons was sailing away from the coast of Somalia today after being held by pirates for more than four months.

A top British Government official has said that a ship that was believed to have left Benin with children destined for slavery did not contain any unaccompanied minors and had been confused with a second ship, whose current location was unknown.