The captain and crew of the car carrier held for more than a year by Houthi rebels have been nominated for shipping’s top ...

The ship is flying under a Panamanian flag. Pirates have attacked more than 100 ships off the Somali coast over the last year, reaping an estimated $1 million in ransom for each successful ...

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled this year, threatening to make international trade more expensive and offering terrorists a new source of income, says a report released Wednesday ...

The Gulf of Guinea, long regarded as the international piracy hotspot, was overtaken in the first quarter of the year by the ...

A Greek-controlled vessel immobilised in the Indian Ocean after an engine room fire last month has been towed to safety.

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.

CAMP, a Mumbai-based collaborative, makes use of cellphone videos, CCTV, and pirate radio, turning tech to subversive ends.

In southern Costa Rica, local lore has told of two sunken pirate ships just off the coast in the shallow Caribbean waters. Well, there are sunken ships there, and they do date to the early 1700s.

Thousands lined up on Esquimalt Road on Saturday to watch pirates roll into town. Many brought their own marauder gear to match at the Buccaneer Days Parade, which has for decades followed a ...

Supreme Court Wrestles With Judges’ Power to Freeze Government Actions Nationwide The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case with potentially major implications for the power of federal judges ...

Two shipwrecks in Costa Rica were long thought to be sunken pirate ships. New research shows they were actually Danish slave ships. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with archaeologist Andreas Bloch.