France controls the second-largest maritime area in the world, spread over 10 million square kilometres. About 27 percent of this is in the Indian Ocean. The Îles Éparses (Scattered Islands ...

France controls the second-largest maritime area in the world, spread over 10 million square kilometres. About 27 percent of this is in the Indian Ocean. The Îles Éparses (Scattered Islands ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Madagascar for a regional summit has brought fresh attention to a long-running dispute over the Îles Éparses – a group of tiny islands in the Mozambique ...

Five German escapees - four paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor - fled a POW camp in Granville, France, seeking a daring ...

Since the start of the year, chikungunya has already killed six people on the island, and around one in nine people in the population of nearly 900,000 is believed to be affected. Although France ...

Journal Island, the 6-acre Buckeye Lake retreat, has been sold by the Wolfe family, the former owners of The Columbus Dispatch who owned the island for more than a century. The family sold the ...

A small-business owner has gone viral for his riveting videos about Long Island’s most obscure oddities. “People don’t realize everything that goes on around here,” said Arthur Frischman ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (WCIV) — Rep. Nancy Mace will participate in a town hall event in a private gated community on an island near Beaufort Wednesday, with reservations required to attend. The event ...

The Sanibel Causeway Islands Park, a popular recreation area, is set to reopen in phases starting May 1, pending weather and construction factors. Initial amenities will include parking ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

One of the jewels of the Indian ocean, the island is a melting pot of culture owing to its history as colony of both France and Britain. Away from its beaches, the island’s rugged mountains ...