The 3405 metres high Mount Fitz Roy – named after Robert Fitzroy, captain of HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin as a passenger – towers over El Chalten in the Los Glaciares National Park.

Several people were killed on April 27 after a driver ploughed into a crowd attending a street festival in Vancouver, Canada, meant to commemorate Lapu-Lapu, a 16th-century tribal chieftain in the ...

China's military dispatched naval and air forces to monitor a U.S. guided missile destroyer sailing through the Taiwan Strait. China claims the strait as its territory, while the U.S. asserts it as ...

MANILA, Philippines — Decorated filmmaker Lav Diaz is returning to the Cannes Film Festival with his newest movie "Magellan," starring Gael Garcia Bernal as the titular Portuguese explorer.

The US Navy, occasionally accompanied by ships from allied countries, transits the strait about once a month. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, says the strategic waterway belongs ...

If HMS Prince of Wales sails through the Taiwan Strait, it will be one of the most assertive acts of freedom of navigation by a European power in recent years, and a direct challenge to Beijing’s ...

To arrive at Navarino Island, visitors must take a plane or 150-mile overnight ferry across the Magellan Strait from Punta ... The captain of the Beagle, the ship Charles Darwin navigated around ...

The Prime Minister has revealed he was awoken by a siren at 2am during his overnight stay on the HMS Prince of Wales in Plymouth last night (Wednesday). Sir Keir Starmer was visiting the UK’s ...

Ammunition explosions at a military unit in Russia's Vladimir region that started on Tuesday as result of a fire have been "gradually ending," Alexander Avdeev, governor of the region, said on ...

Meanwhile, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew has a collection of 44 letters detailing the HMS Beagle expedition and further letters are held at the Natural History Museum and the Linnean Society of ...

Emotional families waved goodbye to their loved ones on the Royal Navy flagship as she set off for her global mission. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get unlimited ...