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Wrapping up the last foreign tour before her tenure comes to an end on July 25, President Pratibha Patil returned on Tuesday after a nine-day visit to the South Africa and Seychelles.

Halibell is not licensed by the Financial Services Authority and has been operating illegally. The company is registered in the Seychelles but gives an address in Holywell, Flintshire, where boss Mark Stanley Halliday lives.

[Video Link] Judging from the trailer here, A Grain of Sand looks like a good documentary. You can watch it here for $3. On a whim in 1962, British newspaper editor Brendon Grimshaw bought the tiny deserted Moyenne Island in the Seychelles for £8,000. In 1972 he moved to the island and has remained its [...]

Pratibha Patil appears to have courted another controversy after govt sources confirmed that two grandchildren had accompanied the President on a nine-day tour of Seychelles and South Africa.

Seeking to take its relations with Seychelles to new heights, India announced a $75 million financial package for the country and agreed to train police personnel in the strategically located Indian Ocean archipelago, affected by piracy.

An 86-year-old Yorkshire man, Brendon Grimshaw may have lived alone for many years on the tiny island paradise of Moyenne in the Seychelles in the middle of the Indian Ocean since he bought it in 1962 for £8000, but he is rarely lonely.

In 1962, Yorkshireman Brendon Grimshaw bought Moyenne - a small island just half a mile wide - in the Seychelles for the princely sum of £8,000, and he has been living there ever since.

An earthquake of magnitude 8.7 has been detected off the west coast of northern Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey says. The epicenter of the…

Marie-May Kölsch, the Seychelles consul-general in South Africa, has lambasted Pinnacle Point Group's liquidators over claims that she received money from the embattled property group.

Les réservations remontent pour Costa Croisières en France, trois mois après l'accident du Costa Concordia qui a fait 32 morts le 12 janvier et six semaines après l'avarie de l'Allegra au large des Seychelles, a indiqué mardi le président de Costa en France, Georges Azouze.histoires liéesOCDE: signes de reprise en zone euro, mais France et Italie toujours au ralentiPrésidentielle: la campagne r...

L'avocat suisse de la famille Bettencourt, René Merkt, a détaillé en 2010...

The estimated $13.4 million aircraft was reported having technical problems soon after taking off and tried to land at Seychelles International Airport on the main island of Mahe but instead careered into the Indian Ocean.

A newly-wed bride who saw her husband killed by a shark in the Seychelles, yesterday described the moment she heard his screams as she read a book on the beach and realised that he had suffered "very serious injuries".

Ian Redmond killed by shark in Seychelles ten days after wedding

What on earth could make a 13-hour flight with two small children worth the effort? The Seychelles, says Imogen Edwards-Jones, as she ignores the warnings that long haul is not for children and jets off to paradise.

The Seychelles has called for international help as naval forces tighten the noose around Somali pirates, saying they cannot hold more prisoners.

De modestes prisons déjà surpeuplées, des gardes-côtes largement démunis :...

“It wouldn’t have felt right continuing with this holiday, which has been ruined,” one passenger, Jonathan, told reporters at Rome’s Fiumicino airport

Les centaines de passagers du « Costa Allegra » ont débarqué épuisés, hier aux Seychelles, à l'issue de trois jours « éprouvants » et même « atroces » dans un paquebot privé d'électricité, de toilettes et de nourriture cuite après un incendie en plein océan Indien. Le paquebot a été remorqué depuis...

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) -- The worst moments for Gordon and Eleanor Bradwell came immediately after the alarm sounded. Eleanor rushed to their cabin to get a life vest. Gordon was pushed in another direction. The scent of smoke grew stronger aboard the disabled cruise ship. Then the lifeboats dropped....

A disabled Italian cruise ship, the Costa Allegra, reached port Thursday after several harrowing days at sea.

Costa Allegra passengers arrive at port in Seychelles and tell of 'hell' on-board.

By Margaret Bristol for Bookish:Call me a landlubber, but recent disturbing news stories about cruise ships have me reconsidering my vacation plans. In January, the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground in Italy, leaving more than 30 passengers dead or presumed dead. Today, another vessel from the same company, the Allegra, is being towed into Seychelles after a fire left the cruise ...

Exhausted passengers, including 13 Canadians, left the Costa Allegra cruise ship in the Seychelles capital Victoria on Thursday, ending a three-day ordeal in the Indian Ocean after a fire knocked out the vessel’s main power supply

As stricken cruise ship docks in the Seychelles, passengers describe overflowing toilets, no electricity and stifling heatHot and tired passengers disembarking from a stricken cruise ship that docked on Thursday in the Seychelles after three days at sea without power described difficult conditions and a scary time after fire broke out in the engine room and those aboard prepared to get into lif...

Hot and tired passengers disembarking from a disabled cruise ship that docked Thursday in the Seychelles after three days at sea without power described difficult conditions and a scary time after fire broke out in the engine room.

A disabled cruise ship docked in the island nation of the Seychelles on after three days at sea without power.

Le paquebot Costa Allegra a accosté jeudi au port de Victoria, capitale des Seychelles, avec un millier de personnes à bord, contraintes à des conditions de vie sommaires depuis un ince...lire la suitehistoires liées06:27 Cyclisme : Jonathan Dufrasne a chuté au GP Samyn06:23 Meister : une amende de 7 millions par jour en cas de blocage08:53 ArcelorMittal va investir 17 millions à Florange08:51 ...

Cruise ship with 1,000 passengers and crew aboard arrives in port under tow after three days at sea without power.

Remorqué par un thonier français, le paquebot arrive au port principal des Seychelles. Les mille passagers et membres d'équipage pourront débarquer vers 9 heures après trois jours pénibles en haute mer.Articles en rapportLes passagers d'une croisière détroussés au MexiqueArmer l'opposition syrienne, une option risquéeSénégal : les quatre erreurs de WadeHoms, au cœur du drame syrienLa Corée du N...

Le bateau de croisière Costa Allegra, remorqué depuis mardi, après un incendie en plein océan Indien qui l’a privé de moteurs, est arrivé au large du port de Mah...lire la suite

El crucero italiano "Costa Allegra" ha llegado hoy frente al puerto de Mahé, la principal isla de las Seychelles, tres días después de un incendio en su sala de máquinas que lo privó de motores en pleno océano Índico.

A Seychelles official says passengers aboard a disabled cruise ship will spend 10 to 12 hours longer at sea than was needed.

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) -- An aviation official in Seychelles says that a disabled cruise ship being towed to the island nation's main port is expected just after dawn on Thursday....

Helicopters have been delivering supplies to the stricken cruise ship, the Costa Allegra, as it is towed to the Seychelles.

[[369124]] VICTORIA (AFP) : Le paquebot Costa Allegra, qui a été pris en remorque par un chalutier français après un incendie en plein Océan indien, est attendu au plus tôt mercredi sur l'île Desroches, dans le sud-ouest de l'archipel des Seychelles, a indiqué mardi la présidence seychelloise. "Les...

A French fishing vessel reached an Italian cruise ship drifting powerless in the Indian Ocean overnight and was towing it to a nearby Seychelles island, the Seychelles Coast Guard said Tuesday.

SEYCHELLES - A liner owned by the same firm as the Costa Concordia was left adrift in the Indian Ocean after an engine room fire left it without power.

A fire broke out on the Costa Allegra off the coast of the Seychelles but no injuries were reported -- six weeks after the Costa Concordia capsized.

Ship with 1,049 people aboard adrift in the Indian Ocean after fire, dealing a fresh blow to London-listed owner Carnival Corporation

Rescuers race to sister ship of recently capsized Costa Concordia, without power in pirate-infested Indian Ocean

The recent losses of the Pentagon's robot Sentinel in Iran, the Reaper in the Seychelles, and the Predator in Kandahar offer a window into a future in which the global skies will be filled with drones that may prove far less wondrous than Americans have been led to believe.

THE US Air Force is investigating how one of its drones crash-landed overnight at the Seychelles international airport on the island of Mahe.

The Chinese navy is now considering taking on supplies in the Seychelles while conducting escort missions to tackle piracy.

Beijing Seeks To Allay Fears, Says Seychelles Base Is Meant Only For Naval Refueling