For most of us, the days of keeping a stash of folded-up maps in the car glovebox are behind us. So in a world of smartphones and GPS, why go to a store that specializes in maps? That’s the question ...

It’s Day 1 of Donald Trump’s presidency. And his “First Buddy” Elon Musk is grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons — a hand gesture to be precise. Trump and Musk are close and on the President’s ...

The UK must hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, even if Donald Trump scuttles the current proposed agreement, the Mauritian prime minister has said. Navin Ramgoolam has demanded that deal ...

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

According to a statement on the official website for the president of Ukraine, Maslovsky "eliminated" four Russian troops before engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a fifth soldier. After a ...

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The UK will not finalise a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is consulted. The British government ...

Labour won't finalise a deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until Donald ... to consider the terms of an agreement to hand over the Indian Ocean archipelago.

In a new study published this week, researchers debuted a bionic hand system that can reportedly reproduce the most complex tactile sensations seen to date. Scientists at the Cortical Bionics ...

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

Labour’s deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands has been thrown into doubt after Sir Keir Starmer admitted an agreement would not be reached before Donald Trump enters the White House. Allies ...