AS Britain’s winter gloom deepens, there’s still time to check into a world cruise which leave these shores early in the New Year – and stays away until the spring.
CONSUMERS are tightening their belts this Christmas, with many cutting down on the number of presents they buy and the majority paying for them in cash, a recent survey showed.
IT'S AN insurer's nightmare: Heavily armed pirates, emboldened by their success in capturing cargo vessels, hijack a cruise ship with hundreds of well-heeled passengers and ask for massive ransoms.
CRUISE passengers on the luxury liner M/S Nautica have spoken of hearing “pop, pop, pop..” from pirates rifles firing at their ship as it sailed in the Guld of Aden.