A commercial ship carrying 83 passengers and crew, plus livestock, has sunk off the coast of Lebanon in stormy seas. Rescue operations have been hampered by bad weather and choppy water, but 34 survivors have been rescued, four people are known to be dead,and the search for others from the Panamanian-registered Dany F II continues. Authorites believe the ship was traveling from Uruguay to Syria. The animals are believed to have all died.

A week earlier, an Israeli ship in need of repair was rescued in waters off Lebanon when it sank.

Links to other sites: AP, Arutz Sheva, Israel

(AP video) A ferry with more than 242 people aboard sank in heavy seas off the island of Sumatra Sunday. A dramatic rescue operation brought some 240 people to safety, but at least 29 people died, and it was clear that the ferry’s manifest did not list all the people aboard, not uncommon in a region where ferries are often over-crowded. A second ferry ran aground nearby, but its passengers are safe.
Links to other sites: AP/Yahoo, Reuters

[CNN video] Millvina Dean of Hampshire, England, died Sunday at the age of 97. The last living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, she had to sell some of her mementoes, report CNN and the BBC, to pay for the cost of her nursing home care, but she remained upbeat to the end. Her mother and brother were saved along with the nine week old girl in 1912, but her father died when the luxury ship sank aftering hitting an iceberg. BBC