5 h. ago Missing teen ‘miraculously’ found alive on remote Australian island

Teenager rescue from a remote island about 12km off the coast

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9 h. ago ‘One in a million’: teen surfer found on remote island 14km off Australian coast

A search involving Marine Rescue NSW, police, PolAir and locals on and around Wooli beach led to Darcy Deefholts, 19, being rescuedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 19-year-old surfer is stable in hospital after being found safe on a remote island off the northern New South Wales coast of Australia in an outcome his dad described as “one in a million”.Darcy Deefholts’ family were “fearing for the worst”, his father, Terry, said in an urgent post to Facebook calling for rescue help on Wednesday night.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Miraculous twist in desperate search for missing teen Darcy Deefholts who disappeared while surfing

Rescuers have made a discovery in the search for a teen surfer on New South Wales' Mid North Coast.

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16 h. ago How to move to a remote island and get paid up to £70,000 for it

Large sums are being offered those those willing to purchase a property in one of the country's 23 uninhabited offshore islands - but there is a catch.

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6 d. ago One of world's most beautiful countries is begging tourists to come

The mineral-rich Arctic island is open for tourism. Whale-watching tours, excursions to the iconic puffin island and guided charters through remote settlements are just the beginning of what Greenland has to offer visitors.

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7 d. ago Travel expert issues advice on Greek holidays after wildfires rage at tourist hotspot

Whether you're heading off to a remote Greek island or enjoying the mainland – a travel expert has advised the Daily Star on what to do during the wildfire outbreak in Crete

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7 d. ago US researchers launch new mission to solve mystery of Amelia Earhart’s fate

Researchers to follow fresh clues that suggest pioneering aviator may have crash-landed on remote Pacific islandA new mission to locate Amelia Earhart’s long-missing plane is being launched, researchers announced on Wednesday, following fresh clues that suggest she may have crash-landed on a remote island in the South Pacific.A satellite image may show part of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E protruding from the sand on Nikumaroro, an isolated island in Kiribati about 1,000 miles from Fiji, according to Richard Pettigrew, head of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, a non-profit based in Oregon. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Search for British tourist who vanished in remote area of Greek island enters fourth day

Rescue teams have been looking for the man on the island of Karpathos since Saturday

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1 week ago Abandoned UK island with only one road running through it loved by the Beckhams

A stunning but wildly remote UK island, which hasn't been permanently inhabited since the 1960s, is so exclusive even the Beckhams have visited - but getting there isn't easy

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3 w. ago Idyllic home on remote Scottish island open to visitors again after 9 years

The project cost £3.6 million

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4 w. ago Puppies, ghosts and euphoric snogging: the 25 best queer films of the century so far

From coming-out fables and dancefloor make-outs to unsimulated sex and a madcap maternal quest, here is a feast of movies about LBGTQ+ livesOne detractor called it “a Shawshank Redemption for progressive millennials”. But the force of Céline Sciamma’s lesbian love story about an artist and her unwitting sitter on a remote island in 18th-century Brittany is undeniable. As is the integrity of its central dynamic, stripped of power imbalances, hierarchies – and men. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Jay Slater's friend Lucy Law reveals what he told her on night he disappeared as bombshell new claims emerge over British teen's Tenerife death

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Slater vanished in Tenerife last June only to be found dead a month later with severe head injuries at the bottom of a remote ravine on the Spanish party island.

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4 w. ago Mystery after two hikers are found dead on remote island in Lake Superior’s Isle Royale National Park

Authorities hiked 11 miles overnight to find the victims’ bodies

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last month Revealed: The bizarre way King Charles' grandmother found out about his birth from a remote Greek island

Princess Alice, the mother of the Duke of Edinburgh , was reportedly thrilled when she finally received the news of her grandson's birth.

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