WE set off up the steep road from the pier, past the ruined friary.

Nearly 300 juvenile green sea turtles have died at a government-funded breeding farm in the Cayman Islands, officials said.

Emergency workers searching for a young woman reported missing following a landslide at a beach in Dorset have discovered a body, police said today.

Hurricane Wilma, the most intense storm to form in the Americas, lashed the coasts of Central America and Caribbean islands today as it lumbered toward Mexico’s Cancun resort and Florida.