3 Somali Pirates May be Dead in Shoot-Out

Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday. The pirates denied the report

Somali pirates hold Dutch firm’s crew hostage

A Dutch shipping company has been in contact with Somali pirates who hijacked a ship with nine crew members as it traveled through the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wits’ End

In a summer of sequels, the third go-round for Johnny Depp and his not-so-merry miscreants leaves Richard Schickel with a sinking feeling

Johnny Depp: Nautical but nice

Johnny Depp has appeared in a wide range of films, from art-house, in Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man,” to the recent grand-scale reworking of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory;” from the dark and gothic “Edward Scissorhands” to the understated and deeply moving “Finding Neverland.”