Foula in Shetland, Britain's remotest permanently inhabited island, marks Christmas and New Year according to an ancient calendar for the festivity. According to the feast days of the old Julian ...

LOCALS living on Britain's most remote island have told how they don't even have a pub - but could never be lonely. Sheila Gear, 82, originally from Oxford, has lived in Foula for 61 years - now ...

January: Japan invades Burma. Malaya and the Solomon Islands fall. Rabaul, on the New Britain island north of New Guinea, becomes an important Japanese base. February: In the first U.S. carrier ...

Foula in Shetland, Britain's remotest permanently inhabited island, marks Christmas and New Year according to an ancient calendar for the festivity. According to the feast days of the old Julian ...

A major earthquake with a magnitude 7.7 struck off Papua New Guinea on Monday, official monitors said, and a tsunami warning was issued soon after. Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention ...

has given the go ahead for two new electricity links between Britain and the island of Ireland. One project will link Scotland and Northern Ireland, while the second will be between Wales and the ...

January: Japan invades Burma. Malaya and the Solomon Islands fall. Rabaul, on the New Britain island north of New Guinea, becomes an important Japanese base. February: In the first U.S. carrier ...