Princess Cruises’ Crown Princess was forced to dock in Los Angeles on Nov. 16 after more than 170 people on board, both crew and passengers, became infected with norovirus. On a voyage that started on Oct. 18, the ship, carrying a total of 4,169 people, was returning from a round trip to ports in Hawaii and Tahiti.

The virus, which causes fever, nausea and diarrhea, struck the same ship in April 2014, infecting 129 people. As it was in April, the Crown Princess will be subjected to...

As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 38 destinations: Afghanistan, Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, El Salvador, Eritrea, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Kenya, North Korea, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Republic of South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine,...

A landslide at a tea plantation near the town of Haldummulla in southeastern Sri Lanka on Oct. 29 engulfed 140 houses over an area of one square mile. Some houses were under 30 feet of mud. As of press time, 10 people were known to have died, with at least 100 still missing.

Heavy rains had triggered landslide warnings across Sri Lanka and washed away sections of major roadways. The landslide in Haldummulla occurred after parents returned home from taking their children to school,...