The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on Florida beaches over the weekend ...

From Libya to Italy, Tunisia to France, the Canary Islands to mainland Europe, countless migrants lose their lives attempting ...

Camogli, a picturesque coastal town on the Ligurian Riviera in Italy, has a rich maritime history dating back to ancient ...

A team of researchers in Alaska have banded together to investigate a famous Alaska shipwreck. The Star of Bengal sank off ...

Gorgeous new hotels, shops, and restaurants are leveling-up the always-cool scene in Australia's beautiful Byron Bay.

In Manaus, a sprawling city of more than 2 million, the depth of the Rio Negro, a major branch of the Amazon River, reached ...

The incident provides an unusual peek inside Russia’s fleet of spy ships that NATO nations are watching closely due to concerns of underwater sabotage.

Three Ghanaians have told the BBC of their involvement in the fighting between Islamist insurgents and the military in ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the inauguration of a new department dedicated to African partnerships.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...