Backed by a $43million (£35million) pledge from Mr DiCaprio, the initiative focuses on Floreana Island, one of the archipelago ... Marcelo Mata Guerrero, Ecuador’s Minister of Environment ...

I've worked as a South American travel specialist for eight years and have traveled to all 13 of the main Galápagos Islands. Located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, the beautiful islands are ...

Palau's president Surangel Whipps Jr, leading a Pacific Island nation of 18,000 people ... man standing behind a microphone, next to a USA flag. As Pacific leaders talk of an "Ocean of Peace ...

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Just like last year, a pit stop to change tires will be mandatory in the World SBK and SSP World Championship races A month after the first round of the year at Phillip Island, FIM and Dorna have ...

Each summer, the remote Italian island of Alicudi attracts a slow drip of tourists looking to escape the trappings of modernity. There are no cars or even roads on the two-square-mile volcanic ...

After Monday's presidential inauguration, flags fly back at half-staff in Texas. According to a press release from the White House, flags were ordered to be flown at full-staff at the White House ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear. By Kenneth Chang During his Inaugural Address on Monday ...

(NEXSTAR) — Flags across the U.S. are meant to be at half-staff for another eight days, but they were at full staff in Washington, D.C. on Monday. Why was the nation’s capital in defiance of a ...

PETALING JAYA: There are existing laws that regulate the public display of national emblems, including foreign flags, in Malaysia, says a legal expert. Datuk Indrani Thuraisingham, the legal ...

After some controversy over whether flags should fly at full-staff on Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on the topic Monday. In one of his first actions as ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has ordered flags in the state to fly at full-staff on Monday for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump as the nation remains in a mourning ...