Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates.
The island was spotted by satellite in the 143,200-square-mile Caspian Sea, between Europe and Asia, NASA says. NASA photo Like some sort of modern Atlantis, a “ghost” island has largely ...
One of Liverpool's oldest churches, which has stood proudly for nearly 200 years, has a secret. Beneath the impressive, Gothic-style chapel on Scotland Road is a crypt - where 660 individual tombs ...
Amid heavy turnout of devotees to Sri Ranganathaswamy temple, residents of the temple town of Srirangam have sought installation of lights on the passages beneath the outer gopurams around the ...
IT hadn’t been more than ten minutes since we left the harbour, but already I was prepared to call it quits. The sea was swelling beneath our flimsy RIB dinghy, like giant rolling hills growing ...