The storm “totally destroyed” the port of Black River, the prime minister said. At least five people died in Jamaica, and the ...

The raucous funeral was a celebration for the Coney Islanders who had most vehemently opposed the casino, and marked the end ...

Hurricane Melissa has left at least 34 dead in the Caribbean: eight in Jamaica, one in the Dominican Republican and 25 in ...

Solomon Islander Dennis Phillip was ploughing his soil by hand when he heard an unusual clunk -- one of the countless unexploded bombs still scattered across the small Pacific nation decades after ...

Jamaica was so badly battered by Hurricane Melissa that officials still have no idea how many people died, government ...

like seashells on a beach. And that is just the beginning. "Everybody knows someone that has been affected," Emily Davis, who leads The Halo Trust's operation in the Solomon Islands, told AFP.

Japanese and Allied forces waged a savage campaign across the Solomon Islands from 1942 to 1945, in which tens of thousands were killed. They left behind bombs now buried under homes, schools, ...

Across the sea in Haiti, Melissa killed at least 20 people, including ten children. Heavy rains caused a flash flood that ...

Dick Zigun, the longtime “unelected mayor of Coney Island,” said he has been in favor of a Coney Island casino since the ...

In a world where over-tourism dominates much of the travel landscape, some destinations remain blissfully untouched by the ...

Melissa is an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 hurricane as it closes in on Cuba after the storm made a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history. Follow for ...

Hurricane Melissa is grinding across eastern Cuba as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one of the strongest ...