Britain signed a deal on Thursday to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after a London judge overturned a last-minute injunction and cleared the way for an agreement the government says is vital to protect the nation’s security. The multibillion-dollar deal will allow Britain to retain control of the strategically important US-UK air…
If you are the right candidate, Richard Irvine will give you his business and train you to run it. He will hand over his keys, customers and secrets to smoking fish — all free. The catch: You have to commit to living on a remote Scottish island called Colonsay. Population 125. There is already global…
Earthquake: फिजी द्वीपों के दक्षिण में आज यानि सोमवार (14 अप्रैल, 2025) को सुबह 6.3 रिक्टर पैमाने की तीव्रता के भूंकप के झटके महसूस किए गए. राष्ट्रीय भूकंप विज्ञान केंद्र के मुताबिक भूकंप का केंद्र 10 किलोमीटर जमीन की गहराई में था. इस भूकंप के कारण आस-पास के क्षेत्रों में भी हलचल महसूस की गई,…
After global bewilderment and viral memes erupted over US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on uninhabited islands populated only by penguins and seals, a top US official has defended the move. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick attempted to justify the 10 per cent tariffs targeting the remote Heard and McDonald Islands — a territory…
An American tourist set off alone last week on an inflatable boat for the remote island of North Sentinel in the Indian Ocean. He had packed a Diet Coke and a coconut as an offering for the highly isolated tribe that lives there, and had brought along a GoPro camera in hopes of filming the…
NEW DELHI: The US national arrested for entering the prohibited areas in Andaman and Nicobar islands has been remanded in three-days police custody for investigation. The police have seized a ‘GoPro’ camera from the suspect and its video footage has confirmed his visit to the restricted North Sentinel Island. The suspect has been identified as…
Private Mediterranean islands are rather rare, but Punta Pennata, a sliver of land in the Gulf of Naples with the crumbling walls of an old Roman villa tucked amid its overgrown flora, has been on the market for several months. Located about 20 miles from downtown Naples, the narrow island with its abrupt cliffs sits…
Rum, a diamond-shaped island off the western coast of Scotland, is home to 40 people. Most of the island — 40 square miles of mountains, peatland and heath — is a national nature reserve, with residents mainly nestled around Kinloch Bay to the east. What the Isle of Rum lacks is artificial illumination. There are…
A large, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean on Saturday night, triggering a tsunami threat across much of the region, including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Honduras and Cuba. The quake struck 209 kilometers (about 130 miles) south-southwest of Georgetown, Cayman Islands, at 6:23 local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This is a developing…
The authorities in Greece on Monday closed schools and deployed emergency services on the Aegean island of Santorini, one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations, after the area was rattled by hundreds of minor and moderate earthquakes. The ministry for civil protection said on Sunday that more than 200 tremors had struck the Aegean…