Open-source, ship-tracking data showed China has recently sent three research vessels to the Indian Ocean to survey the strategic waters that border its competitor India. All three vessels were ...

Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent. India charged across the equator at rates of up to 15 cm/year, in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

A chunky low-pressure system, located 1,300 nautical miles SSW of Cape Leeuwin, has produced an impressive round of long-period swell. Over the past 24 hours, we’ve seen this system slightly ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world By Jo Marchant ...

In 1924 Britain held sway over 400 million people in 58 countries across the globe, seven times larger than the Roman Empire ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps U.S. and Chinese aircraft carrier ... U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the Indian Ocean on September 15. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago (group of islands) that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the islands to Mauritius.  One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...