At least 94 people were killed and hundreds more are missing after a ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized off the coast of an Italian island on Thursday. Authorities say as many as 500 people may have been on the boat, which reportedly left from Libya earlier in the week.

Francesco Schettino, the Italian cruise ship captain who caroused with his passengers before steering his ship dangerously close to shore and then fleeing immediately when it ran aground and capsized, leaving 11 (at last count) to die and thousands to flail in terror, sounds like a real go-getter. Here is a tape of…

Being a professional beer-taster probably sounds like a pretty good job, until you are asked to taste samples of 200-year-old beer found in a Baltic Sea shipwreck. The tasters who were asked to do so recently, on behalf of researchers in the Åland Islands (an autonomous region of Finland), said that the beer, found in…