A package that was to be loaded on to a cruise ship at the Port of Miami tested positive for plastic explosives today, the US Coast Guard said.

Investigators hope to recover the fuselage of a sunken seaplane to find why it broke apart and plunged into the ocean just off Miami Beach, killing all 20 people on board including three infants.

A judge has thrown out illegal ship-boarding charges against Greenpeace, ruling there was not enough evidence for the case to go to the jury.

An explosion and fire in the boiler room of a cruise ship docked in Florida killed at least three crew members and injured 20 others, eight critically.