Prince Harry's autobiography "Spare" is not due out until next week but it dominated headlines on Thursday after a Spanish-language version of the memoir mistakenly went on sale. The book was hurriedly withdrawn from shelves in Spain but not before copies were obtained by media outlets, who pored over its contents -- and its implications [...]
Seychelles' former President Danny Faure will lead a team of Commonwealth observers to the general election of Antigua and Barbuda scheduled for January 18. According to a press release on Thursday, the announcement for the composition of the Commonwealth Observation Group was announced by the Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, in response to an invitation from the [...]
Pope Francis led the funeral of his predecessor Benedict XVI on Thursday in front of tens of thousands of mourners in St Peter's Square, an event unprecedented in modern times. Scarlet-clad cardinals, dignitaries and thousands of priests and nuns from around the world gathered to say goodbye to the German theologian, who stunned the Catholic [...]
The Supreme Court of Seychelles started auctioning Vijay Construction's vehicles at the Palais de Justice's yard on Thursday morning. The proceeds of the auction will be used to pay off part of the company's debt of €33 million owed to the Russian company Eastern European Engineering Limited (EEEL). The auction comes less than three months after the Seychelles [...]
Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean, is a dream destination. The islands are famous for their crystal-clear waters, powdery white sandy beaches, pristine green environment, and diverse but yet unique biodiversity. It is often referred to as paradise on earth where there are just over 100,000 people and there is [...]
The deeply riven US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running Wednesday as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in the race for speaker. Conservative hardliners have been blocking establishment pick Kevin McCarthy in a humiliating standoff that has paralyzed the lower chamber of Congress since it [...]
Fish that have lost food due to mass coral bleaching are getting into more unnecessary fights, causing them to expend precious energy and potentially threatening their survival, new research said Wednesday. With the future of the world's coral reefs threatened by climate change, a team of researchers studied how a mass bleaching event affected 38 [...]
Scientists from the Islands Conservation Society (ICS) conducting systematic surveys in the Alphonse Group of outer islands in Seychelles have reported that all three islands within the St Francois Atoll; St Francois Island, One Palm Island and Bijoutier Island have increased in overall surface area. A team has been monitoring the processes of erosion and [...]
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka Wednesday announced its first nationwide elections since its president fled and resigned in the face of widespread protests, in what will be a test of popularity for his successor. Local government polls will be held before the end of February, officials said, after they were delayed by a year due to the [...]
Work has begun to set up a National Drug Observatory (NDO) in Seychelles that will help the health authorities collect, analyse and share information related to the supply and demand of drugs in the country. Representatives from the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Kenya's National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol [...]
