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Cruise operator Carnival said Thursday it was arranging to fly as many as 4,300 passengers home after the Carnival Dream moored for repairs in the Dutch Caribbean island of St Maarten.

A Carnival Cruise ship was moored in St Maarten for repairs Thursday with a boatload of passengers, the US Coast Guard said, a month after a hellish ordeal aboard another of its ocean liners.

Long lines, fewer X-ray machines, planes stuck on US runways and doubts about air traffic control: look forward to travel misery this summer if budget-slashing sequestration takes effect Friday.

The 4,000-plus exhausted passengers who lived a hellish four-day ordeal aboard the powerless and drifting Carnival Triumph cruise ship won't be left completely empty handed.

Exhausted passengers who spent four days adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with no power and few working restrooms streamed off a stricken Carnival cruise ship.

The stricken Carnival cruise ship Triumph arrived back in port, ending a nightmarish ocean voyage for some 4,000 desperate passengers and crew after it lost power over the weekend.

An operation to tow a disabled cruise ship packed with desperate passengers back to the United States was again delayed on Thursday when one of the cables attaching it to a flotilla of tugs snapped.

Passengers on a stricken cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico are enduring a nightmare after days without power, waiting hours for sparse meals and relieving themselves in plastic bags, one said Thursday.

A cruise ship that lost power in the Gulf of Mexico, trapping more than 4,000 people aboard, had already suffered electrical problems as recently as a few weeks ago, its operator Carnival said Wednesday.

A cruise ship packed with 4,200 travelers was adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for a third day waiting to be towed into the US port of Mobile, Alabama, a company spokesman said.

A US gunman and murder suspect who snatched a five-year-old boy and held him for a week underground in a bunker besieged by police has been killed and the child is safe, the FBI said.

A US gunman and murder suspect who snatched a five-year-old boy and held him for a week underground in a bunker besieged by police has been killed and the child is safe, the FBI said.

Mallory Owens says she was not attacked violently on Thanksgiving Day by her girlfriend's brother because she is gay. Mallory Owens, the Mobile, Alabama woman who was attacked violently on Thanksgiving Day by her girlfriend's brother, 18-year-old Travis Hawkins, Jr., says she was not beaten because she is gay. Owens, 23, suffered multiple skull fractures and crushed bones as a result of the attack. Her mother, Kristi Taylor, told media outlets that her daughter was beaten because she is gay. On Tuesday, the day after Owens left the hospital, she disputed the claim, insisting that the attack was not motivated by hate. ?It's not a hate crime at all,? Owens' girlfriend, Ally Hawkins, told WKRG.com. ?We both know the reason why this happened. I'm not defending him at all. Know why he was angry and that will come out.? Travis Hawkins has been charged with second degree assault. According to his lawyer, he has gone into hiding after receiving death threats. He is expected to be arraigned on

European aircraft maker Airbus said Friday it plans to double its annual spending with US companies to some $24 billion in the coming years and would seek new supplier partnerships in Southern California.

New Orleans on Tuesday braced for another hurricane as a strengthening Tropical Storm Isaac drew near, seven years after Hurricane Katrina left 1,800 dead in the fabled jazz city.

New Orleans on Tuesday braced for another hurricane as a strengthening Tropical Storm Isaac drew near, seven years after Hurricane Katrina left 1,800 dead in the fabled jazz city.

The people of New Orleans on Monday prepared themselves for yet another hurricane -- seven years after the fabled city of jazz was swamped by Hurricane Katrina, which left 1,800 dead.

The people of New Orleans prepared themselves for yet another hurricane -- seven years after the fabled city of jazz was swamped by Hurricane Katrina, which left 1,800 dead.

The people of New Orleans on Monday prepared themselves for yet another hurricane -- seven years after the fabled city of jazz was swamped by Hurricane Katrina, which left 1,800 dead.

New Orleans braced Monday for another major tropical storm almost seven years after Hurricane Katrina swamped the fabled US home of jazz, leaving a surreal sprawl of destruction and death.