John Mullen has learnt a lot from the likes of Matthew Flinders, the first man to circumnavigate Australia, and 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

How embarrassing to see one of our Trident submarines steal back home, speckled with barnacles, blotched with rust and with ...

A SEAL which had become caught in a fishing net and was swept out to the sea during an attempted rescue has been saved in Frinton. British Divers Marine Life Rescue was called out to reports of a seal ...

A New Zealand-based nonprofit announced the blobfish as the winner of its "Fish of the Year" vote, years after it was named ...

A chilling warning has been issued to British holidaymakers setting sail for Mallorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera this ...

While traditional religious practices may be on the decline, pilgrimages — meditative, multi-day hikes — are experiencing a ...

The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

British police have received an extension to detain the Russian captain of the Solong, a ship involved in a collision with a U.S. tanker. The incident, which resulted in one death, is still under ...

U.K. police say the Solong cargo ship's captain, identified by the vessel's owner as a Russian national, was detained on ...

Good afternoon and happy Tuesday, readers! The Trump administration’s tariffs are back on as the president announced he would be doubling the duties on Canadian steel and aluminum, in retaliation to ...

Police say they have opened a criminal investigation into a collision between two ships in the North Sea and have arrested a ...