Britain said to lay claim to south Atlantic seabed
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Britain is seeking to legally annex stretches of the south Atlantic seabed in a bid to tap gas, mineral and oil wealth, in a move that could raise tension with Argentina, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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London - Britain knew about an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a team of mercenaries was nabbed in Zimbabwe as they prepared to carry it out, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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It has been a while since anyone could say the sun never sets on the British Empire. But Britain is again trying to extend its reach Â this time to potentially lucrative seabeds in the Antarctic and the Atlantic Ocean.
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SIRTE, Libya  - British leader Tony Blair held talks with Muammar Gaddafi in a tent in the Libyan desert on Tuesday as BP sealed a big energy deal with Tripoli in a boost to the West's ties with the once-isolated African state.
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LONDON, May 24 -- Families forced to leave the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a U.S. military base at Diego Garcia during the Cold War have won a key legal victory in their long struggle to return.
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The 25th anniversary of the Falkland Islands' liberation will be marked by events in the UK and south Atlantic.
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Britain outlined proposals on Wednesday to sell part of its holding in British Energy, the nuclear power station operator, which could earn it 2.19 billion pounds.
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Science & environment: An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic
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Â· Girl alleged to be buried under rocks in PortugalÂ· Police say they are taking claim 'very seriously'
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London - Efforts will be made to begin towing a stricken Canadian submarine drifting in the Atlantic off the northern Irish coast to Scotland on Friday, Canadian and British naval officers said.
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Chile stresses its own  rights to  Antarctica, after the UK  said it would try to claim a large area of the region's seabed.
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Four projects are in the works to lay fiber-optic cables beneath the Indian Ocean off the coast of eastern Africa. The countries involved are:
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The 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands will be marked by events in the UK and south Atlantic.
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Canada announces plans for naval vessels and a deep-water port to assert its claim to Arctic territorial waters.
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COUNTRIES around the Atlantic rim could be hit by killer tsunamis at any time between now and the next 10,000 years, the British government's chief scientific adviser said today.
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Japan offers to help build one for the Indian Ocean.
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A service to mark the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War is held on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.