If your idea of a romantic break involves a laid-back destination that comes with the magical sun-sea-sand formula, food and ...

In tin-roof villages where women in brightly coloured kangas chat and fruit comes in ox carts, ... 250 miles south of the main island Mahé — is as an Indian Ocean Galápagos.

But the Chagos islands’ location in the Indian Ocean is also appetizing to China, which imports much of its oil from the Middle East using routes that cut through those waters, known as Beijing ...

Periampillai, 37, grew up in a Mauritian family in London, where her parents emigrated in the 1970s. While there were (and continue to be) only a handful of Mauritian restaurants there, her ...

The Chagos Islands are a speck in the Indian Ocean – and, at first glance, in history. ... Women helped oust South Korea’s president. Now they feel erased by elections.

This archipelago of 1000-plus islands dotted across the Indian Ocean consists of 26 atolls ringed by soft white sand, which are home to some of the most impressive hotels on the planet.

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

Exchange winter for the luxury of the Maldives or the Seychelles, the exotic glamour of Zanzibar or the wonderfully weird wildlife of Madagascar, says Harriet O’Brien ...

One of my favorite things about Rodrigues Island is that the speed limit is 50 kilometers per hour (about 32 mph). The people who live on the super-remote southern Indian Ocean island ...