1 week ago A booming wild sauna culture is transforming how people explore the Scottish outdoors

Can Scotland compete with the sauna-loving Nordic and Baltic countries? Julia Clarke heads to the coast to find out

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1 week ago Vietnam faces new typhoon threat as flood death toll hits 37

The typhoon is expected to make landfall in the Philippines before strengthening rapidly as it heads toward Vietnam’s central coast

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2 w. ago Headless diver with no hands found off the Dover coast as his identity remains a mystery

The discovery of a diving suit off the coast of Dover in 1992 led to a major investigation – but the identity of the headless, handless diver has never been discovered

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2 w. ago Cyclone Montha mapped: 50,000 people evacuated as huge storm heads for Indian coast

Cyclone Montha set to lash India’s eastern coastal states with strong winds and heavy rains

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3 w. ago ‘Dare to change’: Ivory Coast heads to the polls as rivals seek to oust Ouattara

Incumbent leader, 83, is accused of cracking down on political dissent and overseeing unequal economic growthAlassane Ouattara is seeking a fourth presidential term as Ivory Coast goes to the polls on Saturday, after a campaign in which he touted economic growth while facing accusations that he has overseen a growing intolerance towards dissent.An estimated 8.7 million people are eligible to vote. Four candidates are challenging the incumbent, including the former first lady Simone Ehivet Gbagbo and a trio of former ministers: Henriette Lagou Adjoua, Ahoua Don Mello and Jean-Louis Billon. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago What to know about Coast Guard Island in California, where federal agents have headed

Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base

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