The sliteye shark has been recorded for the first time on the Great Chagos Bank, the world's largest coral atoll ...

As my friend David Trimble’s wife Daphne and I agreed - laughingly - when I reported to her something fantastically tactless ...

LABOUR is under fire for masking the true cost of handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Taxpayers will spend £34.7million ...

Conservative shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel accused ministers of trying to ‘cover up’ the cost of ceding the ...

Giving away the Indian Ocean archipelago to the east African nation will cost £35 billion, Whitehall estimates suggest ...

Large ocean animals can be protected throughout much of their lifecycle by huge Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), new research ...

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago, has been described by its prime minister as a “victory for international law, for postcolonial justice and ...

The Chagos Archipelago’s return to Mauritius marks the end of decades of diplomatic conflict between this island nation and the United Kingdom. However, the Chagossian people’s identity and ...

Keir Starmer is facing humiliation on the international stage after experts at the United Nations (UN) called for his controversial deal with Mauritius on the Chagos Islands to be suspended. UN ...

Analysis - The decades-long Chagos islands dispute has finally entered a new chapter. The UK officially agreed to return the sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius.