NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cruise liners, long considered modern-day galleons of gluttony, are also hoisting seriously sophisticated fitness and wellness centres on the high seas.

The food has not disappeared but a battery of seaworthy fitness experts are also on deck to help the health-minded cruiser resist the siren song of that endless buffet.

“Cruise lines are doing a great job of keeping up with the 21st century. You can be a fitness junkie on a cruise,” said Mike Weingart of Travel Leaders in Houston, Texas. “Those who want to be fit can keep up their routine.”

Or learn new ones.

Jogging tracks and state-of-the-art fitness centres are standard on most big ships, but increasingly so are wellness education classes, metabolic testing and cutting edge fitness classes, from kettlebell workouts to TRX suspension training, which borrows technology from U.S. Navy Seals.

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PERTH, Australia – An alleged Nazi collaborator wanted in Hungary in the torture and killing of a Jewish teenager in 1944 won an appeal Friday against extradition from his adopted country of Australia.

Charles Zentai, 88, is suspected by the Hungarian government of being one of three men who brutalized and killed a Jewish teenager in Budapest in 1944 for failing to wear a star identifying him as a Jew.

Zentai, who migrated to Australia in 1950 and later became a citizen, says he is innocent and was not even in Budapest at the time.

Hungary issued a warrant for his arrest in 2005, and after a long legal process Australian Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor late last year approved a request to send Zentai back to face trial.

Zentai and his family appealed the decision to Australia’s Federal Court, and on Friday Judge Neil McKerracher ruled in his favor.

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