L AMEGO, Portugal — A cutting board with a neatly arranged row of glistening, meaty purple octopus limbs was slid in front of ...

An 18-month-old child has suffered potentially life-changing burns following an explosion on a boat on the River Thames, Wiltshire Police say. The toddler is among three people still in hospital ...

Authorities have confirmed the identity of a body that washed ashore in San Diego County last week as a 10-year-old girl who was reported missing after a Panga boat carrying migrants capsized off ...

Though London’s stretch of the Thames is hardly relaxing (too busy, too tidal), the canals and park lakes are ideal for a wistful afternoon of splashing about in a self-drive hire boat.

Two craftsmen chisel the hull of a boat with axes at the Fangzhongxiong dragon boat workshop in Fangzhuang village of Nantong township in Minhou county, Fuzhou city, East China's Fujian province ...

A record 1,194 migrants crossed the English Channel to the U.K. in small boats on Saturday, the highest single-day number this year, bringing the annual total to 14,811. This surge has increased ...

The family of a Scot missing in Portugal have spoken of their heartbreak as they plead for locals to help in the search for him. Greg Monks’ worried parents, Lynne McGloin and Gordon Monks ...

People thought to be migrants board a small boat leaving the beach at Gravelines, France (Gareth Fuller/PA) Six migrant boats have left France in the first attempt to cross the English Channel and ...

It comes after Saturday witnessed 1,195 small boat arrivals - the fifth highest daily tally on record. It was also the first day to break the 1,000 barrier for more than two and a half years.

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A fresh search for missing Leicestershire girl Madeleine McCann is getting under way in Portugal, with officers gathering in countryside a few miles from the resort where she was last seen in 2007.