Captain Richard Phillips Gets $500K Memoir Deal: Report
Merchant ship hero Capt. Richard Phillips may never have to brave pirate-ridden seas again, unless he really wants to. According to publishing sour...
Merchant ship hero Capt. Richard Phillips may never have to brave pirate-ridden seas again, unless he really wants to. According to publishing sour...
AP | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has met with the captain of a U.S. cargo ship who was held hostage by Somali pirates last month. Obama met ...
Essence | Roger Witherspoon | Posted 06.06.2009 | Home
Who could have guessed that Rear Admiral Michelle Howard's first week on the job would play out like something out of a James Bond movie, gripping us ...
AP | JOHN CURRAN | Posted 05.25.2009 | Home
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Former hostage Richard Phillips says he thought he'd never get out of the lifeboat where Somali pirates held him after an abor...
AP | LISA RATHKE | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home
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...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
A Somali teenager captured by the US navy during a confrontation with pirates is to be taken to the US to face trail, US officials have said....
AP | KATHARINE HOURELD and MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
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...
AP | JOHN CURRAN | Posted 05.17.2009 | Home
UNDERHILL, Vt. — Five days after being rescued from the clutches of Somali pirates, cargo ship captain Richard Phillips is headed home. And the ...
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and TODD PITMAN | Posted 05.16.2009 | World
MOMBASA, Kenya — The U.S. and its allies battled Somalia's pirates on two fronts Wednesday, with French forces seizing a bandit mother ship and ...
McClatchy | Shashank Bengali | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
As the Maersk Alabama plowed through the glassy waters of the Indian Ocean last Wednesday morning, the cargo ship's 70-year-old electrician sat in the...
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.15.2009 | World
MOMBASA, Kenya — Defiant Somali pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at another U.S. cargo ship on Tuesday but failed t...
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
What would a "pirate" defense actually look like? Remember, some Somalis -- and other international observers -- do not exactly see the "pirates" as being 100% unjustified in their actions.
AP | MICHELLE FAUL and TOM MALITI | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.13.2009 | Home
A Department of Defense video obtained by CNN shows Captain Richard Phillips right after the rescue operation. Looking grateful and immensely relieve...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.13.2009 | Home
The family of Captain Richard Phillips reacted to his rescue through a spokeswoman. [WATCH} Phillips is a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime A...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.13.2009 | Politics
Statement by President Obama regarding the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips. I am very pleased that Captain Phillips has been rescued and is safely...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.13.2009 | World
***UPDATE 9:32AM EST*** Adm. William Gortney said Monday that it took only three shots for Navy snipers to kill the trio of pirates holding captain Ri...
AP | TODD PITMAN and LARA JAKES | Posted 05.13.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — Navy snipers on the fantail of a destroyer cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued an American sea captain in a...
AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.11.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — A ragtag band of pirates has put President Barack Obama in a bind: He commands overwhelming firepower in the form of a growing flot...
Crain's New York Business | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media