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Rescue workers on the stricken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia have rescued a third survivor.  The workers found the survivor Sunday as they searched through the ship.    Late Saturday, a South Korean couple on their honeymoon were rescued from their cabin.   At least three people were killed when the ship ran aground Friday evening in the Tiranian Sea off the northern Italian coast and flipped on its side with a breach in its hull.   News reports say two Frenchmen died in the incident, as well as one Peruvian crew member.  More than 30 other people were injured.  Officials say at least 40 people are missing, and that some crew members may still be trapped inside the ship.   Italian Captain Francesco Schettino was taken into custody Saturday after several hours of questioning.  Italian news agency ANSA says he could be facing several charges, including homicide and abandonment of the ship. Rescuers using lifeboats and helicopters evacuated most of the more than 4,000 passengers and crew members to the island of Giglio and to Porto Santo Stefano on the mainland early Saturday. Passengers who made it safely to land recounted the chaotic and terrifying evacuation.  One of them was an American tourist from Arkansas, who said some people had to swim to the shore. “We were all standing there, and as the boat started going a little quicker, turning, I saw one of the cranes… It popped the life raft, and it exploded and it went boom! And it just crashed,” said the tourist. “There were two people on it, they got off I think.. we saw like five people jump in the water and start swimming, and I looked and the other crane next to me, which was three feet above water, one meter above water, was like two meters below water.” Passengers were sitting down to dinner at the time of the incident and were told the ship was having electrical problems. An investigation is under way to determine why the ship ran aground.  When it hit the rocks, officials say, passengers were instructed to put on life jackets and to take to life rafts.  However, those on board said the hull tilted so sharply and quickly that many lifeboats could not be lowered into the water. The Costa Concordia is 290 meters long, with 13 decks.  It had 13 bars, five restaurants, four swimming pools and 500 balconied staterooms. Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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Republican voters in the U.S. state of Iowa will hold party caucuses Tuesday in the first step in choosing a candidate who will challenge President Barack Obama in the November election. Voters will gather in churches, school houses and other meeting places to cast their votes.   The latest voter surveys indicate that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has the lead in Iowa among Republican contenders. Romney is closely followed by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum is in third place. After days of criticizing each other, the Republican candidates on Monday focused on President Obama, a Democrat. Romney hammered away at Obama’s record on the economy. “He said if ‘I can’t get this economy turned around in 3 years, I’m looking at a one-term proposition.’ I’m here to collect,” Romney said. Santorum attacked the Obama administration for regulations on business. “People are saying, well what’s hurting this economy? This president, and his top down, I know best, I’m going to tell you how to run your business, how to run your farm, how to run your life. The huge cost that that’s putting on the American people and business is crushing this economy,” Santorum said. Former congressman Newt Gingrich, who is well behind the leaders in the poll, also took aim at Obama, blaming him for the political divisions in Washington. “What America needs is a president who thinks about the children and the grandchildren of this country and the future of this country, and puts that above his own petty, arrogant ambitions and instead serves the country,” Gingrich said. Voters in Iowa often do not crown the eventual presidential nominees for either Republicans or Democrats.  But its first-in-the-nation caucuses can serve as a launchpad for political success in other states during the next several weeks of the candidate selection process.  The Iowa caucuses also serve to push weaker contenders out of the race. A survey Monday in Iowa’s largest newspaper, the Des Moines Register, indicates 41 percent of voters had not made up their minds. Of the seven Republican contenders, one of them, the former U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, has not campaigned in Iowa.  He is pinning his hopes on a good showing in the northeastern state of New Hampshire, where voters will cast primary election ballots on January 10. Obama is unopposed for his party’s renomination, but he faces a difficult test to win another term.  The nation’s economy, the world’s largest, has recovered sluggishly from the 2007-2009 recession, leaving many voters questioning his leadership. VOA correspondents Jim Malone and Kane Farabaugh discuss Iowa caucuses

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