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The captain of the Costa Concordia is to go aboard the shipwreck for the first time since it capsized two years ago as part of a new court-ordered search.

Hundreds of people were still on the sinking Costa Concordia liner when the captain fled the ship in a lifeboat, a court has been told.

A Moldovan dancer who was on the bridge when the Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed into a reef near Italy, killing 32 people, has testified at the captain’s manslaughter trial that the two were lovers.

The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia hit a reef off the coast of a Tuscan island after being disappointed at not getting close enough to it on an earlier attempt, his trial has been told.

Divers searching the submerged wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship have found the remains of one of the two people still missing from the 2012 disaster.

The anxiously awaited attempt to pull the crippled Costa Concordia upright from its side off Italy’s Tuscan coast is under way.

When salvage teams begin hauling the wrecked Costa Concordia liner upright on the Italian island of Giglio next week, the financial stakes for insurers will be almost as enormous as the awe-inspiring feat of engineering.

The Italian court trying the captain of the Costa Concordia heard grim details about how the 32 victims of the shipwreck drowned, some after diving or falling into the sea from the capsized cruise liner when lifeboats were no longer accessible.

The Italian court trying the captain of the Costa Concordia has heard grim details of how the 32 victims of the shipwreck drowned, some after diving or falling into the sea from the capsized cruise liner when lifeboats were no longer accessible.

The captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia is due to go on trial in Italy today, some 18 months after the luxury liner ran aground with the loss of 32 lives.

The captain of the Costa Concordia has been ordered to stand trial over the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which struck a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people.

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Italian cruise line Costa Crociere has been fined €1m for the Concordia cruise ship sinking which killed 32 people.

A Romanian airliner "bounced" off the runway while landing at Rome's main airport during heavy winds, injuring a flight attendant and four passengers.

A moderately-strong earthquake has rattled much of north-central Italy, including Milan skyscrapers, but first reports indicate there are no injuries or major damage.

The former captain of the shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia has arrived at a court in Italy to hear the evidence against him.

Relatives of the 32 people killed in the Costa Concordia shipwreck have sailed to the Italian island where the cruise ship struck a reef six months ago to remember their loved ones.

He’s labelled Rio Ferdinand, Mario Balotelli, and Steve Staunton as clowns, but yesterday Eamon Dunphy became one himself.

Richard Dunne is hoping the luck of the Irish can help give Giovanni Trapattoni's team an edge over their Euro 2012 rivals.

Marco Tardelli has made it clear that he wants his native Italy to play Ireland as scheduled in Euro 2012.

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The sweat was still dripping off Paul Green long after Irish training finished beneath the Tuscan sun yesterday but rarely can a man have seemed so happy about working hard in the summertime when he thought the living would be easy.

Montecatini last night literally rolled out the green carpet, as Giovanni Trapattoni, Marco Tardelli and the Ireland squad were formally welcomed to this beautiful Tuscan spa town, the reception committee including the Lord Mayor Giuseppi Bellandi and the reigning Miss Italy Stefania Bivone.

Giovanni Trapattoni played the diplomat as he and his Republic of Ireland players were honoured at a civic reception in Montecatini this evening.

Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship found four more bodies, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said.

Divers searching the Costa Concordia off the Italian coast have found what appear to be four more bodies on the cruise ship.

Lawyers for survivors of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship have pressed for new drug tests on the ship’s captain after traces of cocaine were reportedly found on a hair sample.

Salvage workers yesterday began pumping fuel from the shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia, a day ahead of schedule, officials said.

A court has refused to lift the house arrest on the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off a Tuscan island last month.

Italian authorities have ended the search for bodies on the submerged sections of the Costa Concordia, more than two weeks after the giant cruise liner capsized off the Tuscan coast.

The cruise ship that capsized off Italy’s coast will take up to 10 months to remove, officials said, as rough seas off the Tuscan coast forced the suspension of recovery operations.

Rough seas off Italy's Tuscan coast have forced a delay in the start of the operation to pump out half a million gallons of fuel from the grounded cruise liner Costa Concordia.

The captain of the doomed Italian liner Costa Concordia said he was told by managers to take his ship close to shore on the night it ran aground and capsized, according to bugged conversations leaked in Italian newspapers.

A barge carrying a crane and other equipment hitched itself to the toppled Costa Concordia, signalling the start of preliminary operations to remove a half-million gallons of fuel from the grounded cruise ship before it leaks into the pristine Tuscan sea.

Unregistered passengers might have been aboard the stricken cruise liner that capsized off a Tuscan island, raising the possibility that the number of missing might be higher than previously announced.

Unregistered passengers may have been aboard the cruise liner that capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio, a rescue official said yesterday, raising the possibility that the number of missing might be higher than the 20 previously announced.

Unregistered passengers might have been aboard the stricken cruise liner that capsized off a Tuscan island, a top rescue official said today.

Rescuers have resumed searching the above-water section of the capsized Costa Concordia cruise liner, but choppy seas kept divers from exploring the submerged part, where officials have said there could be bodies.

Divers have found a woman's body in a submerged section of the grounded Costa Concordia, raising the death toll in the cruise liner tragedy to at least 12.

The captain who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 people on board did not relay correct information either to the company or crew after the ship hit rocks, the cruise ship owner’s boss said as the search resumed for 21 missing passengers.

The search for survivors of the cruise ship disaster was suspended today as the vessel shifted on its rocky perch off the Tuscan coast.

A young Moldovan woman who says she was called to the bridge of the stricken Costa Concordia to help evacuate Russian passengers, defended its embattled captain, saying he worked tirelessly and "saved over 3,000 lives".

A NEW audiotape has emerged of the captain of the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia insisting that the vessel only had a blackout a full 30 minutes after it had rammed into a reef.