Russian cargo plane reportedly lands at Cuban military base amid escalating U.S.-Cuba tensions and Trump's national emergency ...

From vast deserts and ancient libraries to hidden oases and one of the worlds longest trains, Mauritania is a country few people visit but many are starting to notice. This journey explores why it has ...

Archaeologists recently found the wreck of an enormous medieval cargo ship lying on the seafloor off the Danish coast, and it reveals new details of medieval trade and life at sea. Archaeologists ...

The Northerner sank in 1868 and has been resting upright on the lakebed of Lake Michigan off the coast of Wisconsin ever since. Hibbard Inshore / NOAA On November 28, 1868, an American schooner called ...

Until recently, Mauritania was a major fishmeal producer, home to the world’s second-highest number of processing plants, with the boom driven largely by lax regulations and the rapid issuance of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It’s no ordinary shipwreck that maritime archaeologists have uncovered off the coast of Copenhagen, Denmark. Hidden for more than six centuries, the towering vessel has been identified as the largest ...

Mauritania’s energy landscape stands on the brink of transformation as negotiations intensify around Africa’s most ambitious green hydrogen initiative. The West African nation is racing against time ...

Everyone knows the story of the Titanic, the "unsinkable" vessel that became the most famous ship in the world when it struck an iceberg and sank into the icy depths of the North Atlantic in April ...

When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks become the foundations of new life. Rusting hulls, broken masts and even piles ...

DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake ...

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