This includes four 264-passenger sister vessels (Le Soleal, Le Boreal, Le Lyrial and L'Austral) that were specifically built to bump through ice in polar regions ... towns and islands of Croatia.

RAMSI Special Coordinator, Graeme Wilson, today pledged RAMSI's full support for the Solomon Islands ... of millions of people in the region. People residing in the Shortland Islands, bordering Papua ...

How exactly uninhabited islands and administrative regions of France ended up on the White House's tariff list isn't exactly clear. All do have their own two-letter country code on the United ...

Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...

Rio Tinto says it is willing to discuss the future of the island's Panguna copper mine with concerned locals. Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper’s Panguna mine has lain dormant since 1988 ...

Jean François Tourcaty did something both strange and remarkable: he mapped a country through its food. Not its borders. Not ...

Even tiny, sparsely populated islands that export close to nothing. Among the countries and territories listed on sheets of paper that were distributed to reporters in the White House Rose Garden ...

Dallas hopes new climate data can help shape strategies to combat the urban heat island effect that leaves ... by as much as 12 degrees. See the map here. “In some areas, it could be 90 degrees.

Regional councils in South Australia are calling for an improved federal funding system as they struggle to make ends meet. They say South Australian councils are at a disadvantage compared to ...

LONG ISLAND, New York (WCBS) — Fewer than 80 triple organ transplants have been attempted in the United States, and for the first time, the rare procedure was successfully performed on Long Island.

Because of its small size, South Padre Island is often grouped with other towns along the Gulf Coast of Texas, such as Port Isabel and Brownsville, both of which make great daytrips. The town of ...