In his new book "A Captain's Duty" Phillips recounts the harrowing ordeal at the hands four Somali pirates last April, and details for the first time ...
AP | LISA RATHKE | Posted 05.25.2011
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Shipping captain Richard Phillips is back in his home state, a week and a half after being taken hostage by pirates. The plane...
AP | KATHARINE HOURELD and MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.25.2011
NAIROBI, Kenya — The scrawny teenage pirate stormed the Maersk Alabama hoping for a share of a $3 million ransom. He was attacked by its sailors...
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Avast, ye picaroons! If landlubber Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has his way, good ole American privateers will be set loose on ye wily pillaging Somalian buccaneers and get all War of 1812 on yer booties.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
MOMBASA, Kenya — A shipping company spokesman says the American crew that thwarted the hijacking of a U.S. cargo ship has left Mombasa on a char...
AP | MICHELLE FAUL and TOM MALITI | Posted 05.25.2011
NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. and French naval attacks on Somali pirates raised fears Monday for the safety of scores of foreign sailors still held host...
Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.25.2011
The captain's courage is a model for all of us. As we await details of how he made it through his four-day ordeal, it's clear that there was much more to his survival than just bravery.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011
It's time. Once and for all, Ann Coulter needs to shut her trap and simply disappear. For when she opens her mouth, nothing but outlandish, irresponsible, incendiary projectile vomit spews forth.
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates and their hostage American sea captain were adrift in a lifeboat Thursday off the Horn of Africa, shadowed by a ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has declined to answer a question about the hostage situation off the coast of Somalia. The president was a...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have found no direct ties between East African pirates and terrorist groups but continue to search for signs of link...
ABC News | Mark Mooney | Posted 05.25.2011