Islands are universally loved. The world island alone is steeped in romanticism, conjuring up images of swaying palms, sugary ...

Women across Asia are challenging cultural norms by carving their space in surfing and reshaping the sport's landscape.

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The world has witnessed several catastrophic earthquakes, with the 1960 Valdivia, Chile quake topping the list at magnitude 9 ...

India’s Opposition leaders strongly condemned the jailing of two Catholic nuns on what they called false charges of human ...

THE world’s most beautiful islands have been revealed – and the top spot is about to be easier to travel to from the UK. Big ...

One of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded just struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific.

Waves up to 30 meters high ravaged coastlines from Indonesia to Africa, killing over 230,000. India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand ...

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the 21 largest earthquakes ...

In a travel landscape dominated by mega-ships, a rising countertrend is charting its own course. Small-ship cruising is the ...

Russia's earthquake is tied for the sixth strongest on record, and the strongest since 2011 Japan earthquake which triggered ...