Google Street View captures Galapagos Islands

Back from the shooting for Hrid Majharey, the first Bengali film to be shot in Anadaman and Nicobar islands in recent times, Tollywood diva Raima Sen said she will be curing the heart ailments of a maths professor in the movie. "I play a cardiac surgeon, who ...

Regional emergency authorities issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the Kurile islands, advising residents of dangerous areas to seek high ground, but lifted the warning several minutes later.

The fishermen were lodged in a prison in the island nation after their arrest and their remand was extended four times by a court in that country.

Three Chinese government ships entered waters around disputed islands controlled by Tokyo today, Japan's coastguard said. The Chinese maritime surveillance vessels were spotted in the 12-nautical-mile zone off the Senkaku islands, which China calls the ...

Puerto Rico's tiny island of Culebra has been forever dependent on the U.S. territory for food, jobs and health care, but the territory's governor is cutting some of those strings. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said this week that the island will get its ...

Gaining confidence as he nailed questions about obscure island chains, bodies of water, global trade and culture, 12-year-old Sathwik Karnik cruised to victory Wednesday in the 2013 National Geographic Bee. Sathwik, of Plainville, Mass., correctly named ...

Five persons on board a crowded fishing trawler drowned after the vessel capsized near Kadamat island in Lakshadweep on Saturday morning. Two of them were children. Twenty-four others either swam to safety or were rescued by local people and the coastal ...

A 5.9-magnitude quake struck off a remote area of the Solomons Islands Friday, but no tsunami warning was issued for the Pacific nation and a seismologist said there was no cause for concern. The United States Geological Survey said the tremor, at a depth of ...

A senior Chinese military officer has said the Ryukyu Islands -- which include Okinawa and its US military bases -- "do not belong to Japan", as a territorial row mounts between the Asian powers.