The Hawar Islands have been described by Unesco as "Bahrain's last remaining true wilderness", but they are set to become a new eco-tourism hot spot. A luxury resort is to open its doors in September.

Bahrain's Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) has floated a tender for the construction of a new seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant on the Hawar Island off the southeastern coast ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of ancient DNA from 15 former inhabitants of the remote island in the Pacific Ocean.

The World Bank and the government yesterday signed the Second Resilience, Stability, and Economic Turnaround (RESET) Development Policy Operation (DPO)... The Cabinet of Ministers approved the ...

A long-held theory that a dramatic population collapse occurred at some point on the southeast Pacific Ocean’s Easter Island has been dubbed a myth by a new study. Researchers analyzed the ...

The Galápagos Islands are home to lots of different types of plants and animals. Today, tourists visit the islands to see the dramatic landscapes - volcanoes, beautiful coastlines and coral reefs ...

While most people know Key West as a favorite cruise ship stop or the southernmost point of the continental United States, it’s actually an island city. The Overseas Highway — the longest ...

The problem facing isle-o-philes is that it’s hard to know which tropical sun-kissed Indian Ocean island to choose over another. Scattered like jewels from Sri Lanka in the north down to ...

Amid the ongoing flood crisis affecting nearly millions of people across the country, cultural community members have stepped up to support those impacted in various ways. This time, the ...

Putting the net in Netflix, “Billionaire Island” has risen out of a TV archipelago that includes “Dallas,” “Succession” and even “The Borgias”—family dramas about dysfunctional ...

Saturday 5th October, 2024 The police top brass is reported to have held a meeting recently to discuss the progress of high-profile criminal investigations. Among the... Friday 4th October, 2024 Much ...