The FBI is investigating the disappearance of an estate agent who went missing while sailing off the coast of Cuba with her British citizen husband.

A tag from a fishing boat that famously survived the 'Perfect Storm' off the US coast in 1991, has washed up on a beach in Co Clare.

A sniper from the British Royal Marines took out the boat's engines from the back of a Lynx helicopter.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

MICRONESIA: The men rescued in this tale of three castaways were not named Tom Hanks, or Gilligan, or Robinson Crusoe. Though they might as well have been.

A US navy salvage team was preparing yesterday to launch a remotely operated submersible to confirm that wreckage discovered near the Bahamas was that of the cargo ship El Faro, lost in a hurricane last month along with its 33 crew members.

A US Coast Guard life ring has been found on the Clare coast thousands of kilometres where from it was lost overboard in Florida.

Thirty people have been injured, two seriously, after a cruise ship crashed into a wall while entering a lock in New York state.

Former Dolphins full-back Rob Konrad calls the 16-hour-swim he endured after falling off his recreational boat a "boater’s nightmare."

An American F-16 fighter jet is believed to have crashed in the Gulf of Mexico, air force officials have said.

New Florida million-dollar home has nice view, but built on wrong lot

An endurance runner and peace activist who was attempting to reach Bermuda in a homemade floating “Hydro Pod” has been rescued by the US Coast Guard after he began suffering from fatigue.

Rescuers have lost hope of finding a prominent New York couple or recovering wreckage from their small plane which crashed into the sea off Jamaica.

ENGLAND:

Hopes of finding the missing British crew of the Cheeki Rafiki have all but faded after the yacht’s life raft was found on board the capsized vessel.

The US Navy has found the hull of the yacht Cheeki Rafiki which went missing a week ago.

Debris has reportedly been found in the Atlantic Ocean in the area where UK yacht the Cheeki Rafiki went missing.

The world’s largest big wheel attraction started turning as tourists took in a unique overview of the Las Vegas Strip, with wide skies and craggy brown mountains in the distance.

A Russian research ship at the centre of an Antarctic rescue drama has broken free from heavy pack ice two weeks after it became trapped.

Please find a small selection of images which capture the life and times of America's youngest ever president, a man who in living changed the world and whose death left an indelible mark on all those who lived through it.

The head of the US Coast Guard (USCG) has made a whistle-stop visit to Ireland amid tight security.

People-smugglers abandoned 84 migrants from Haiti on a deserted island off the west coast of Puerto Rico, the US said.

Crews aboard two aircraft which flew over an oil drilling ship that went aground in a severe Alaska storm say there is no sign that the vessel is leaking fuel or that its hull has been breached.

Two BP rig supervisors charged with manslaughter over the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon will not go on trial until 2014.

Two people from a Tall Ship caught in Hurricane Sandy are missing after the crew was forced to abandon it amid fierce winds and high seas.

A tsunami warning was issued after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of western Canada today.

Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe lost his way while kayaking off New York’s Long Island, but was picked up by a coastguard boat and taken to shore.

Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe lost his way kayaking off New York’s Long Island, but was picked up by a coastguard boat and taken to shore.

Tributes have been paid to Top Gun director Tony Scott after he jumped to his death from a bridge in Los Angeles.

British film-maker Tony Scott, who directed blockbusters including Top Gun, Days of Thunder and Beverly Hills Cop II, has died after jumping off a bridge in Los Angeles, authorities said today.

At least 38 soldiers were killed and dozens of others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade drill in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today.

Friends of the missing San Francisco yachting tragedy sailors held memorial services in Ireland and the US at the weekend.

The US Coastguard has suspended its search for the missing crew members of a yacht which hit rocks in San Francisco Bay yesterday.

Two US Coast Guard members were shot dead at a communications station on an island off Alaska in what officials said appeared to be a double murder. They have yet to identify a suspect.

The US Coast Guard said a Japanese vessel set adrift by last year’s tsunami has sunk in the Gulf of Alaska, ending its long, lonely voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

A rescue operation was continuing tonight to recover four sailors who were injured when a large wave crashed on to their yacht during a round-the-world race.

An operation to help four sailors who were injured when a large wave crashed on to their yacht during a round-the-world race has been delayed.

BP has agreed to settle claims from thousands of fishermen who lost work and others who said they were harmed by the oil giant’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in US history.

The small Alaska fishing town of Cordova is used to dealing with excessive weather, but residents have been forced to ask for help to dig their way out of massive snow levels that have collapsed roofs, triggered avalanches and even covered doors, trapping some in their homes.

BP is seeking to shield itself from having to compensate Halliburton for punitive damages, fines and penalties the cement contractor may face for its role in the deadly rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Royal Dutch Shell said today it had shut down a drilling rig off the coast of Alabama after about 7,600 gallons of synthetic and biodegradable drilling fluid leaked.

A KEY US federal report has laid much of the blame on BP for the worst offshore oil spill in US history and the deaths of 11 rig workers — particularly with regard to the cement seal that was put in place the day before the explosion that triggered the spill.

A key US report has laid much of the blame on BP for the massive Gulf of Mexico rig disaster.

A BP scientist identified a previously unreported deposit of flammable gas that could have played a role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it has emerged.