Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One night in 1889, the Phaeton caught fire and drifted across the lagoon of a remote Indian Ocean atoll. “It ...

QantasLink begins its new non-stop service from Perth to the remote The Cocos (Keeling) Islands today, removing a previous ...

Divers with the excursion company Undersea Hunter saw a rare site off the coast of Costa Rica’s remote Cocos Island National Park. During the first week of September, the company spotted a pod of ...

And while it’s an effort to reach the far-flung paradise that’s closer to Indonesia than mainland Australia, within moments of arriving, I know I’m in for something special. The gorgeous ...

Cocos Island has a unique brown tree snake problem. Methods used on the rest of Guam, such as setting traps, are not working, and the snake population is growing there, agriculture officials said.