Cocos Island will benefit from $16 million from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for environmental protection. Authorities from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador met this week in Costa ...

Eighty of those people are being taken to Darwin instead of Christmas Island. Customs says the change is for operational reasons. They are due to arrive in Darwin this afternoon.

The expedition's route will closely follow Darwin's original voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, which set off from Plymouth on Dec. 27, 1831 and returned to Falmouth on Oct. 2, 1836.

Cocos Island, situated off the coast of Central America, is popularly supposed to be thickly planted with bags of treasure, left there by the ancient bucaneers and freebooters who plundered the ...