Around the World in 80 Instagrams

JULES VERNE's characters would never have stuck it out this long. Volcanic rocks found in the south Pacific spent at least 2.45 billion years on a journey into Earth's interior and back again. The finding could help narrow down when our planet's ...

The Walt Disney Studios will film a new version of the Jules Verne science fiction classic in Australia after the country agreed to pay it 21.6 million Australia dollars ($22.6 million) to film the movie there. The inducement announced Tuesday is ...

Source: Supplied QUEENSLAND'S hopes of attracting the biggest blockbuster ever made in Australia - a remake of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - could be scuttled by union concerns that lives would be endangered on the Disney set. Disney ...

Director Steven Spielberg is to sail around the world in his $200m yacht in an epic voyage that will see him return to some of his most famous film locations. The trip will take in North Africa and Sri Lanka where he filmed his 'Indiana Jones' ...

We think Jules Verne said it best, though he was talking about India. Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land,with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called Parliamentary, embraces acres of green and gravel ...

World's Largest Boxship Readies for Inauguration The CMA CGM Group announced the arrival of CMA CGM JULES VERNE, the world's largest containership, sailing under the French flag. CMA CGM JULES VERNE began its first rotation … Nam Cheong ...

The experimental theatre company Star Too Group returns to the stage in Dubai this weekend with its new production, Are You There?. The performance is loosely based on Paris in the Twentieth Century, Jules Verne's so-called lost novel. Written in ...

The idea of an underwater pumped hydroelectric power plant may sound like Jules Verne fiction, but then it was hatched by a German engineer who has spent much of his professional life working in aerospace technology. "Imagine opening a hatch in a ...

This is the heart of the aerotropolis. The word evokes something from the imagination of Jules Verne or HG Wells, but its progenitor is in fact a professor from the Centre for Air Commerce at the University of North Carolina. Airports will shape ...