Two desperate, dehydrated men found bobbing in a bathtub-sized cooler off Australia told authorities they spent 25 days adrift after their fishing boat sank, officials said Tuesday. There was no sign of 18 other crew members.
Authorities were amazed that the men, from the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, were spotted by a routine customs service [...]

Somali pirates have released a Danish cargo ship and its mainly Russian crew after a ransom payment was parachuted to the hijackers, more than two months after it was seized, the owner said Friday.
The CEC Future was hijacked off Somalia’s northern shores on Nov. 7.
The ship and its 13 crew members — 11 Russians, one [...]