Italian civil authorities have approved on Tuesday the plan to remove the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

The latest attempt to salvage the sunken tanker White Whale has begun. The ship sank off Umm Al Quwain several months ago.

Bond, the helicopter operator which grounded its fleet after a Super Puma ditched in the North Sea last week is to resume normal flying.

Weathernews Inc., the world's largest private weather service company, has shown on Tuesday a micro satellite that it developed to observe Arctic Ocean ice for purposes of guiding ships through the area in summer.