Sandy Island

Three castaways stranded for a week on a desert island in the western Pacific Ocean were rescued after a US Navy aircraft searching for them spotted palm fronds that the trio used to spell out the word "H-E-L-P" on a sandy beach.

An obscure piece of land located between Australia and an island named New Caledonia called Sandy Island, has been an enigma for many years.

Maldives has curbed movement on several resort islands, authorities said on Sunday, after the country reported its first two cases of coronavirus. There are more than 1,400 people on the island, split equally between guests and staff, according to the tourism ministry.

The next revolution in space, making humdrum what was long the special preserve of tax-funded giants like (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA, will be launching next year from a paddock in New Zealand's remote South Island.

To mainlanders, Sandy Beach is famous because it's where President Obama loves to bodysurf. Last year, the Honolulu City Council briefly considered naming it after the president. Perhaps it's just as well they didn't, because in Hawaii, it's famous for broken necks.

Candles and flashlights will light up the shore along the East Coast as survivors of Superstorm Sandy pay their respects to what was lost when the storm roared ashore one year ago.

A year after Superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded vast swaths of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by bureaucracy, insurance disputes and uncertainty over whether they can even afford to rebuild.

The Statue of Liberty has finally reopened months after Superstorm Sandy swamped its little island in New York Harbor.

Closed to the public since superstorm Sandy slammed into New York last October, the Statue of Liberty will once again welcome tired and huddled masses -- of tourists -- on July 4.

The Statue of Liberty will finally welcome visitors again, months after Superstorm Sandy swamped her little island.

Seven months after deadly superstorm Sandy devastated the coastline of New Jersey and parts of New York, all New York City beaches opened on Friday at the start of the three-day Memorial Day weekend.

A New Zealand researcher on Monday claimed to have solved the riddle of a mystery South Pacific island shown on Google Earth and world maps which does not exist, blaming a whaling ship from 1876.

The National Park Service expects to know within a month the total cost and time it will take to repair storm damage to Liberty and Ellis Islands and to reopen the Statue of Liberty to tourists, a spokesman said on Monday.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has fired his $153,000-a-year emergency management director for diverting a crew to remove a tree from his Long Island home's driveway after Superstorm Sandy hit, a state official said Wednesday.

Four days after superstorm Sandy smashed into the U.S. Northeast, rescuers on Friday were still discovering the extent of the death and devastation in New York and the New Jersey shore, and anger mounted over gasoline shortages, power outages and waits for relief supplies.

Three castaways stranded for a week on a desert island in the western Pacific Ocean were rescued after a US Navy aircraft searching for them spotted palm fronds that the trio used to spell out the word "H-E-L-P" on a sandy beach.

An obscure piece of land located between Australia and an island named New Caledonia called Sandy Island, has been an enigma for many years.

Maldives has curbed movement on several resort islands, authorities said on Sunday, after the country reported its first two cases of coronavirus. There are more than 1,400 people on the island, split equally between guests and staff, according to the tourism ministry.

The next revolution in space, making humdrum what was long the special preserve of tax-funded giants like (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA, will be launching next year from a paddock in New Zealand's remote South Island.

To mainlanders, Sandy Beach is famous because it's where President Obama loves to bodysurf. Last year, the Honolulu City Council briefly considered naming it after the president. Perhaps it's just as well they didn't, because in Hawaii, it's famous for broken necks.

Candles and flashlights will light up the shore along the East Coast as survivors of Superstorm Sandy pay their respects to what was lost when the storm roared ashore one year ago.

A year after Superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded vast swaths of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by bureaucracy, insurance disputes and uncertainty over whether they can even afford to rebuild.

The Statue of Liberty has finally reopened months after Superstorm Sandy swamped its little island in New York Harbor.

Closed to the public since superstorm Sandy slammed into New York last October, the Statue of Liberty will once again welcome tired and huddled masses -- of tourists -- on July 4.

The Statue of Liberty will finally welcome visitors again, months after Superstorm Sandy swamped her little island.

Seven months after deadly superstorm Sandy devastated the coastline of New Jersey and parts of New York, all New York City beaches opened on Friday at the start of the three-day Memorial Day weekend.

A New Zealand researcher on Monday claimed to have solved the riddle of a mystery South Pacific island shown on Google Earth and world maps which does not exist, blaming a whaling ship from 1876.

The National Park Service expects to know within a month the total cost and time it will take to repair storm damage to Liberty and Ellis Islands and to reopen the Statue of Liberty to tourists, a spokesman said on Monday.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has fired his $153,000-a-year emergency management director for diverting a crew to remove a tree from his Long Island home's driveway after Superstorm Sandy hit, a state official said Wednesday.

Four days after superstorm Sandy smashed into the U.S. Northeast, rescuers on Friday were still discovering the extent of the death and devastation in New York and the New Jersey shore, and anger mounted over gasoline shortages, power outages and waits for relief supplies.