After sliding down the gangway in 1960, the SS France became one of the last great trans-Atlantic ocean liners.
Peruvian presidential candidate Alan Garcia accused Sunday Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez of having launched a strategy to dominate South America and involved Bolivian president Evo Morales in the scheme.
Freedom of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, was formally christened live on NBC's Today show on May 12th as it received the traditional salute from fireboats just off the Statute of Liberty in New York Harbor.