Archipelago

With a map in one hand and a cold beer in the other, I sat alone at the bar of the Baobab Beach Backpackers Lodge in the coastal town of Vilankulo, gazing out at the sweeping sandbars and vivid turquoise waters that surround Mozambique’s…

NEW DELHI: The Solomon Islands has been witnessing the latest flare-up in its two-decade-old tensions with anti-government protesters breaching the National Parliament building in the capital on Wednesday and burning other buildings, mostly…

For the first hour or so, the water was relatively calm. After departing from the small fishing village of Stein on the Isle of Skye, we sped through a strait known as the Little Minch toward the main band of the Outer Hebrides, the thick…