A ferry with nearly 700 people aboard sank near the central Philippine port of Cebu on Friday after colliding with a cargo vessel, killing at least 17 people, the Associated Press reported. MV Thomas Aquinas, the captain of the ferry, ordered the ship abandoned after it began listing and then sank once it hit the vessel.
60-year-old Romanian Princess Irina Walker and her husband John Wesley Walker, a former sheriff's deputy, were arrested by federal agents in Eastern Oregon on Thursday in connection with an alleged cockfighting ring.
A Brazilian court on Wednesday convicted three men for the rape of an American tourist in Rio de Janeiro from March this year.
Christian churches in Egypt have been burned to the ground by supporters of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi, and the strong response by security forces to subsequent protest, NewsMax and CNN reported. Protesters tossed firebombs at Mar Gergiss church in Sohag, which has a large Coptic Christian community.
